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Toward Measuring Empathy in Virtual Reality

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Jacob Rosenbloom,

Judeth Oden Choi,

Jessica HammerAuthors Info & Claims

CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

Pages 551 - 559

https://doi.org/10.1145/3130859.3131325

Published: 15 October 2017 Publication History

Abstract

While VR is often described as an empathy-inducing medium, it is difficult to link specific features of a VR experience to empathy outcomes. This is due in large part to the challenges of measuring empathy constructs, and the difficulty of capturing the subjective emotional experience of a player in VR. In response, the authors propose a lightweight, inexpensive framework that researchers can use to easily establish a VR testing environment and begin gathering data on the subjective empathic response of users in VR. The authors also propose future research needed to expand, modify, and validate the proposed user-testing protocol.

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CHI PLAY '17 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts Publication of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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DOI:10.1145/3130859

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