Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach

Guo Freeman; Julian Frommel; Regan L. Mandryk; Jan Gugenheimer; Lingyuan Li; Daniel Johnson; Cecilia Aragon; Syed Ali Asif; Jakki Bailey; Meryem Barkallah; Braeden Burger; Sebastian Cmentowski; Jamie Hancock; Leanne Hides; Hongxin Hu; Yang Hu; Wangfan Li; Ruchi Panchanadikar; Niloofar Sayadi; Devin Tebbe; Leslie Wöhler; Xinyue You; Zinan Zhang; Douglas Zytko

doi:10.1145/3678884.3681865

Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach

Guo Freeman, Julian Frommel, Regan L. Mandryk, Jan Gugenheimer, Lingyuan Li, Daniel Johnson, Cecilia Aragon, Syed Ali Asif, Jakki Bailey, Meryem Barkallah, Braeden Burger, Sebastian Cmentowski, Jamie Hancock, Leanne Hides, Hongxin Hu, Yang Hu, Wangfan Li, Ruchi Panchanadikar, Niloofar Sayadi, Devin TebbeLeslie Wöhler, Xinyue You, Zinan Zhang, Douglas Zytko

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Abstract

Seeking novel approaches to understand and mitigate emerging and understudied new harms in immersive and embodied social spaces is a critically needed HCI and CSCW research agenda for achieving safer online environments in the future. In this work, we present and discuss the results from a CHI 2024 workshop in which 26 experts engaged in a speculative dystopian design fiction activity. Through the structured design fiction exercise, our participants collectively created six design fictions along four main themes highlighting our shared concerns in this problem space. We contribute to CSCW and HCI research by demonstrating the novelty and value of using speculation and design fiction as a methodological tool to engage with research in this emerging problem space. The identified themes and created design fictions also help us speculate plausible and desirable futures regarding new harms in embodied and immersive virtual spaces in the first place, which will inform our future research on envisioning and identifying potential solutions to prevent these harms from becoming reality.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Editors	Michael Bernstein, Amy Bruckman, Ujwal Gadiraju, Aaron Halfaker, Xiaojuan Ma, Fabiano Pinatti, Miriam Redi, David Ribes, Saiph Savage, Amy Zhang
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	288-295
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400711145
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681865
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2024
Event	27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW Companion 2024 - San Jose, Costa Rica Duration: 9 Nov 2024 → 13 Nov 2024

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

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Conference	27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW Companion 2024
Country/Territory	Costa Rica
City	San Jose
Period	9/11/24 → 13/11/24

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Keywords

ai
embodiment
harassment
harm mitigation
immersive virtual worlds
online harm
online safety
toxicity

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Freeman, G., Frommel, J., Mandryk, R. L., Gugenheimer, J., Li, L., Johnson, D., Aragon, C., Asif, S. A., Bailey, J., Barkallah, M., Burger, B., Cmentowski, S., Hancock, J., Hides, L., Hu, H., Hu, Y., Li, W., Panchanadikar, R., Sayadi, N., ... Zytko, D. (2024). Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach. In M. Bernstein, A. Bruckman, U. Gadiraju, A. Halfaker, X. Ma, F. Pinatti, M. Redi, D. Ribes, S. Savage, & A. Zhang (Eds.), CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 288-295). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678884.3681865

Freeman, Guo ; Frommel, Julian ; Mandryk, Regan L. et al. / Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces : A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach. CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. editor / Michael Bernstein ; Amy Bruckman ; Ujwal Gadiraju ; Aaron Halfaker ; Xiaojuan Ma ; Fabiano Pinatti ; Miriam Redi ; David Ribes ; Saiph Savage ; Amy Zhang. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. pp. 288-295 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach. / Freeman, Guo; Frommel, Julian; Mandryk, Regan L. et al.
CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ed. / Michael Bernstein; Amy Bruckman; Ujwal Gadiraju; Aaron Halfaker; Xiaojuan Ma; Fabiano Pinatti; Miriam Redi; David Ribes; Saiph Savage; Amy Zhang. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. p. 288-295 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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Freeman G, Frommel J, Mandryk RL, Gugenheimer J, Li L, Johnson D et al. Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach. In Bernstein M, Bruckman A, Gadiraju U, Halfaker A, Ma X, Pinatti F, Redi M, Ribes D, Savage S, Zhang A, editors, CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery. 2024. p. 288-295. (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). doi: 10.1145/3678884.3681865

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