SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges

Nadine Wagener; Leon Reicherts; Nima Zargham; Natalia Bartłomiejczyk; Ava Elizabeth Scott; Katherine Wang; Marit Bentvelzen; Evropi Stefanidi; Thomas Mildner; Yvonne Rogers; Jasmin Niess

doi:10.1145/3544548.3580763

SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges

Nadine Wagener, Leon Reicherts, Nima Zargham, Natalia Bartłomiejczyk, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Katherine Wang, Marit Bentvelzen, Evropi Stefanidi, Thomas Mildner, Yvonne Rogers, Jasmin Niess

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Albrecht Schmidt, Kaisa Väänänen
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-17
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394215
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580763
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023

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Funding Information:
We thank all our participants for taking part. Special thanks go to Johannes Schöning and Carolin Stellmacher for their invaluable support. This research is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy (EXC 2077, University of Bremen), by a Lichtenbergprofessorship of the Volkswagen foundation and the Leverhulme Trust (award DS-2017-026).

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Keywords

Creativity
Emotion
Expression
Guidance
Reflection
Self-care
Virtual Reality
Well-being

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Wagener, N., Reicherts, L., Zargham, N., Bartłomiejczyk, N., Scott, A. E., Wang, K., Bentvelzen, M., Stefanidi, E., Mildner, T., Rogers, Y., & Niess, J. (2023). SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges. In A. Schmidt, & K. Väänänen (Eds.), CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17). Article 323 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580763

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Wagener, N, Reicherts, L, Zargham, N, Bartłomiejczyk, N, Scott, AE, Wang, K, Bentvelzen, M, Stefanidi, E, Mildner, T, Rogers, Y & Niess, J 2023, SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges. in A Schmidt & K Väänänen (eds), CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 323, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580763

SelVReflect: A Guided VR Experience Fostering Reflection on Personal Challenges. / Wagener, Nadine; Reicherts, Leon; Zargham, Nima et al.
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Albrecht Schmidt; Kaisa Väänänen. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. p. 1-17 323.

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