Purposeful XR: Affordances, Challenges, and Speculations for an Ethical Future
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At this CHI '25 Workshop, participants engaged in deeper discussions, experienced demos, and shared practices around HCI research and XR addressing social challenges.
Applicants were from many backgrounds such as academia, industry, and creative, and wrote thoughtful papers and brought demos of in-progress, recent, or prior work.
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Position Papers and Attendees
Presence/Simulation
- Utilizing Virtual Reality for Wildfire Evacuation Training
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Alison Crosby, MJ Johns, Katheine Isbister, Sri Kurniawan
(paper CHIXR/2025/01 )
- Virtual Reality for Urban Walkability Assessment
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Viet Hung Pham, Malte Wagenfeld, Regina Bernhaupt
(paper CHIXR/2025/02 )
Alternate Views
- Investigating Environments’ and Avatars’ Effects on Thermal Perception in Virtual Reality to Reduce Energy Consumption
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Martin Kocur, Niels Henze
(paper CHIXR/2025/03 )
- Change Your Perspective, Widen Your Worldview! Societally Beneficial Perceptual Filter Bubbles in Personalized Reality
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Jannis Strecker, Luka Bekavac, Kenan Bektaş, Simon Mayer
(paper CHIXR/2025/04 )
Location for Engagement
- Bridging Generations: Augmented Reality for Japanese Wartime Oral History
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Karen Abe
(paper CHIXR/2025/05 )
- Community Empowerment through Location-Based AR: The Thámien Ohlone AR Tour
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Kai Lukoff
(paper CHIXR/2025/06 )
Ethical Challenges
- No Fuss, Just Function - A Proposal for Non-Intrusive Full Body Tracking in XR for Meaningful Spatial Interactions
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Elisabeth Mayer, Thomas Odaker, Dieter Kranzlmüller
(paper CHIXR/2025/07 )
- Identifying Ethical Challenges in XR Implementations in the Industrial Domain: A Case of Off-Highway Machinery
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Anastasia Sergeeva, Claudia Negri-Ribalta, Gabriele Lenzini
(paper CHIXR/2025/08 )
Interaction/immersion
- Leveraging Agency in Virtual Reality to Enable Situated Learning
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Eileen McGivney
(paper CHIXR/2025/09 )
- Leveraging Metaphors in a VR Serious Game for Computational Thinking
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Inmaculada Rodríguez, Anna Puig
(paper CHIXR/2025/10 )
Organizers
Elizabeth Childs Stanford University
Samir Ghosh University of California, Santa Cruz
Sebastian Cmentowski University of Waterloo
Andrea Cuadra Olin College of Engineering
Rabindra Ratan Michigan State University
Workshop Schedule (archive)
Time | Activity | Description |
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9:00 | Welcome | Introduction of organizers and agenda. |
9:05 | Participant Introductions | Participants introduce themselves to the group with a 1-slide introduction; 1-2 minutes each. |
9:30 | Session 1: Meaningful XR Affordances | Discussion of how affordances are used across different domains, and ethical challenges that arise with the affordance. Participants will present highlights from their discussion to the group. |
10:30 | Break | |
11:10 | Session 2A: Affordance Demos | Chosen demos will give a quick introduction to their demo, its affordance and its relation to the social challenge, and any feedback they would like from the group. |
11:20 | Session 2B: Affordance Demos | Participants will have time to try out demos, ask questions, and give feedback |
11:55 | Session 3: XR Futures | Discussion of necessary technology and research directions to address social challenges. Participants will present highlights from their discussion to the group. |
12:50 | Closing Remarks | |
13:00 | Social | Optional Lunch |