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SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges

Wagener, Nadine; Reicherts, Leon; Zargham, Nima; Bartłomiejczyk, Natalia; Scott, Ava Elizabeth; Wang, Katherine; Bentvelzen, Marit; ... Niess, Jasmin; + view all (2023) SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges. In: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. pp. 1-17). ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Green open access

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Abstract

Reflecting on personal challenges can be difficult. Without encouragement, the reflection process often remains superficial, thus inhibiting deeper understanding and learning from past experiences. To allow people to immerse themselves in and deeply reflect on past challenges, we developed SelVReflect, a VR experience which offers active voice-based guidance and a space to freely express oneself. SelVReflect was developed in an iterative design process (N=5) and evaluated in a user study with N=20 participants. We found that SelVReflect enabled participants to approach their challenge and its (emotional) components from different perspectives and to discover new relationships between these components. By making use of the spatial possibilities in VR, participants developed a better understanding of the situation and of themselves. We contribute empirical evidence of how a guided VR experience can support reflection. We discuss opportunities and design requirements for guided VR experiences that aim to foster deeper reflection.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges
Event: CHI '23: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580763
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580763
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: Virtual Reality; Guidance; Refection; Well-being; Self-care; Expression; Creativity; Emotion
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > UCL Interaction Centre
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169979
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