Building Community Resiliency through Immersive Communal Extended Reality (CXR)

• Published in: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
• Main Authors: Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Swapna Joshi, Yuzhen (Adam) Zhang, Ruixiang (Albert) Han, Narges Mahyar, Wendy Ju
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2023
• Subjects: urban interfaces; communal extended reality (CXR); climate change; coastal communities; community engagement; social awareness; Technology; T; Science; Q; Roosevelt Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/mti7050043; https://doaj.org/article/ba003a97b76240619b32d63dfa6fe617

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...