“Online collaborative design with students for autobiographical VR stories about Covid-19” presented by Bahng and McArthur
Session Title:
Participatory Practices and Institutional Change
Presentation Title:
Online collaborative design with students for autobiographical VR stories about Covid-19
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Abstract:
This research examines opportunities for using virtual reality (VR) as an autobiographical storytelling tool for students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collaborating remotely with eight university undergraduate students in Canada, we created eight individual 3D nonfiction VR pieces that express the students’ own pandemic experiences. Through a collaborative design process, our findings highlight how VR was used as a meaningful device for telling students’ autobiographical stories about the COVID-19 pandemic: delivering the storyteller’s own feelings, creating a sense of confinement and disconnection, showing environmental details, and expressing inner worlds.
