Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR)
Situated and shared experiences can motivate community members to plan shared action, promoting community engagement. We deployed and evaluated a communal extended-reality (CXR) bus tour that depicts the possible impacts of flooding and climate change. This paper describes the results of seven commu...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:ba003a97b76240619b32d63dfa6fe617 2023-06-11T04:16:18+02:00 Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR) Sharon Yavo-Ayalon Swapna Joshi Yuzhen (Adam) Zhang Ruixiang (Albert) Han Narges Mahyar Wendy Ju 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7050043 https://doaj.org/article/ba003a97b76240619b32d63dfa6fe617 EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/7/5/43 https://doaj.org/toc/2414-4088 doi:10.3390/mti7050043 2414-4088 https://doaj.org/article/ba003a97b76240619b32d63dfa6fe617 Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Vol 7, Iss 43, p 43 (2023) urban interfaces communal extended reality (CXR) climate change coastal communities community engagement social awareness Technology T Science Q article 2023 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7050043 2023-05-28T00:33:27Z Situated and shared experiences can motivate community members to plan shared action, promoting community engagement. We deployed and evaluated a communal extended-reality (CXR) bus tour that depicts the possible impacts of flooding and climate change. This paper describes the results of seven community engagement sessions with a total of N = 74 members of the Roosevelt Island community. We conducted pre- and post-bus tour focus groups to understand how the tour affected these community members’ awareness and motivation to take action. We found that the unique qualities of immersive, situated, and geo-located virtual reality (VR) on a bus made climate change feel real, brought the consequences of climate change closer to home, and highlighted existing community resources to address the issue. Our results showed that the CXR experience helped to simulate a physical emergency state, which empowered the community to translate feelings of hopelessness into creative and actionable ideas. Our finding exemplifies that geo-located VR on a bus can be a powerful tool to motivate innovations and collective action. Our work is a first-of-its-kind empirical contribution showing that CXR experiences can inspire action. It offers a proof-of-concept of a large-scale community engagement process featuring simulated communal experiences, leading to creative ideas for a bottom-up community resiliency plan. Article in Journal/Newspaper Roosevelt Island Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Roosevelt Island ENVELOPE(-162.000,-162.000,-79.283,-79.283) Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 7 5 43 |
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Situated and shared experiences can motivate community members to plan shared action, promoting community engagement. We deployed and evaluated a communal extended-reality (CXR) bus tour that depicts the possible impacts of flooding and climate change. This paper describes the results of seven community engagement sessions with a total of N = 74 members of the Roosevelt Island community. We conducted pre- and post-bus tour focus groups to understand how the tour affected these community members’ awareness and motivation to take action. We found that the unique qualities of immersive, situated, and geo-located virtual reality (VR) on a bus made climate change feel real, brought the consequences of climate change closer to home, and highlighted existing community resources to address the issue. Our results showed that the CXR experience helped to simulate a physical emergency state, which empowered the community to translate feelings of hopelessness into creative and actionable ideas. Our finding exemplifies that geo-located VR on a bus can be a powerful tool to motivate innovations and collective action. Our work is a first-of-its-kind empirical contribution showing that CXR experiences can inspire action. It offers a proof-of-concept of a large-scale community engagement process featuring simulated communal experiences, leading to creative ideas for a bottom-up community resiliency plan. |
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Sharon Yavo-Ayalon Swapna Joshi Yuzhen (Adam) Zhang Ruixiang (Albert) Han Narges Mahyar Wendy Ju |
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Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR) |
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