May 23 2023 20 mins
Joining Nicole Ellison in this episode of JCMC: The Discussion are Eugy Han and Dr. Kristine Nowak, two of the authors behind the recently published “People, Places, and Time: A Large-scale, Longitudinal Study of Transformed Avatars and Environmental Context in Group Interaction in the Metaverse”. In addition to discussing their findings, Han and Dr. Nowak share how their transition to remote learning, and subsequent experimentations with VR, informed and inspired this recent study. Han and Dr. Nowak go on to share some advice for scholars interested in integrating VR into their work as well as further discuss potential future applications for VR in academia and research.
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Featuring
Nicole Ellison
Eugy Han
Kristine Nowak
More from our guests:
Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information
University of Michigan
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Twitter: @nicole_ellison; @ica_jcmc
PhD Candidate & SGF Fellow | Department of Communication
Scholar | Virtual Human Interaction Lab
Stanford University
Twitter: @eugyhan
LinkedIn: Eugy Han
Professor | Department of Communication
Director | Human-Computer Interaction Lab
University of Connecticut
Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Professor | Department of Engineering
University of Palermo
Twitter: @profknowak
LinkedIn: Kristine Nowak
Works Referenced In Episode:
Han, E., Miller, M. R., DeVeaux, C., Jun, H., Nowak, K. L., Hancock, J. T., ... & Bailenson, J. N. (2023). People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(2), zmac031.
Han, E., Nowak, K. L., & Bailenson, J. N. (2022). Prerequisites for Learning in Networked Immersive Virtual Reality.
Mystakidis, S. (2022). Metaverse. Encyclopedia, 2(1), 486-497.
Copy and Audio Editor:
Sharlene Burgos
Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown