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ROAD TO ART3MIS:
WOMEN'S FIRST-TIME
EXPERIENCES IN SOCIAL VR
Suzanne Leibrick, Presenter
Jessica Outlaw M.S. and Beth Duckles Ph.D., researchers
Tweet Questions to @TheExtendedMind
MEET HELEN
● 23 years old
● Professional software developer
● Uses social media daily / interacts with strangers there
● Regularly plays mobile and board and occasionally Steam
games
HELEN’S IMPRESSIONS OF SOCIAL VR
“People can interact with you semi-violently.”
“When people got close to me I felt the same as like if
someone got close to me in real life. Like there was this one
guy who kept running around me in circles and I was like
‘Dude back off’”
“I don’t think I would do [this] just for fun.”
WHAT HAPPENED?
● Helen’s characteristics led us to believe she would like VR
● However, she found it creepy
● Gender appears to be fundamentally ignored in social VR
experiences
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Females in Social VR get unwanted attention, which is a
barrier to adoption. How might we learn more about female
users in order to make Social VR appealing to all?
HERE’S WHAT WE DID
● Recruited 13 tech-savvy Millennial women who had
never tried social VR before
● 30 minute unguided experience of RecRoom, Facebook
Spaces, or AltSpaceVR (or a combination) followed by
30 min post interview.
3 KEY FINDINGS
SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE
CHALLENGING
“One of the first things he said to me was ‘hey beautiful’ and…I automatically
jumped back…my body and my avatar…At one point I brought up my boyfriend
and we kept talking and he said ‘don’t tell your boyfriend about this’ and I was like
‘Nah, I’m going to tell him all about this because this is pretty cool.’”
FLIRTING:
WOMEN FELT SINGLED OUT FOR ATTENTION AND THEY DIDN’T LIKE IT
SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
Someone…kept shoving a marshmallow in my mouth and I didn’t want him to do
that and he kept doing it... It felt very bro-ish and entitled for the dude to
be... I was trying to explore and told him I didn’t... not to shove marshmallows
in my mouth, but that behavior didn’t surprise me.”
DISRESPECTING BOUNDARIES
SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
“…the people who were randomly in the game behind me totally freaked
me out. Partly because the avatars are a little scary, and partly because you
have no sense of where they are. And there is really no clarity of... are you
playing the same game as me? There’s always like... ‘Why are you here? Are
we playing the same game? Are we playing together?…Are we passing by?’
It’s almost like the codes of interaction around that are really unclear.”
SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
LACK OF SOCIAL NORMS
A 2014 Cornell University survey of 4,872 American
women under the age of 40 found that 85% of women
reported being harassed in a public space (e.g.,
catcalling, being followed, etc.) before they reached
the age of 17.
SOME CONTEXT OF WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE
SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
Understanding women’s real life experiences with social
dynamics and harassment will help VR creators anticipate
the needs of and design for half the population.
IMPLICATIONS
SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL
SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
For 13/13 women in the study, learning the
mechanics of moving in the virtual space was
a barrier to engagement.
NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
“In the same way that some people sit in the corner of the restaurant so they can
see the door, so they can control the situation, I don’t choose often to get into
situations where I can’t control the outcomes. … if it were going to be
something I would use on a regular basis, I would definitely need to understand
the mechanics better.”
NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
NOT UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANICS
IS A SAFETY ISSUE
“I wanted more control over what I was doing and the controls were all
over the place. Like the screen popping up and the control panel and another
panel popped up and then I couldn’t necessarily get them all to go away at the
same time. It became way too much. I started to feel weirdly claustrophobic.
I was being engulfed by my drawings.”
USERS WANTED TO FEEL LIKE THEY WERE IN CHARGE
NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
“It was weird. Everybody seemed to know what they were doing and I was the
only one who felt ‘I don’t know what I’m doing here, I don’t know these
people…They seemed really comfortable. I wasn’t really sure, other than
exploring, I didn’t know how things worked.”
NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
PARTICIPANTS STRUGGLED WITH WHAT TO DO
All respondents expressed a dislike or a frustration in time spent navigating (or
LOCATING) menus. In Facebook Spaces (left), users have to press a small arrow
to reveal more menu choices. In Rec Room, users couldn’t remember they have
to look at their left wrist to pull up the menu and asked for help.
NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
DON’T HIDE MENUS
Some respondents repeatedly jabbed
items in the menu even when they
couldn’t select or figure out how to
press or pull a trigger to make the
menu work. Here the participant was
trying to select the color green with
your left hand and getting frustrated
that it wasn’t working. The participant
had to dip the point of the pencil into
the palette to select green.
NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
LEARNING THE CONTROLLERS TAKES TIME
THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS
THEMSELVES
“I didn’t have an interest in changing my avatar to something I was
interested in because I can’t even see it. … I ended up changing it to a
robot. I thought it was cool looking which is why I chose it, but I did not spend
very much time thinking ‘this is what I want’...I was just ‘okay I’ll get that
one.’”
THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES
AVATAR CUSTOMIZATION WASN’T INTERESTING
“It was kind of nice just being a generic avatar because I kind of got the feeling
from the beginning, like if I had been a blonde girl… If I was an attractive
avatar it would be weird… Like unwanted attention and they would all talk
to me and be annoying.”
“The only real discomfort is when you start out, your avatar is a balding
white male. And I am not a balding white male.”
THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES
AVATAR CUSTOMIZATION WASN’T INTERESTING
If I’m in an online game, my standard practice is to mute anyways, because
I’m not going to interact outside of the game-playing mechanisms. That
helps as a baseline level…. I think my negative experiences predispose me not to
want to communicate that way.”
THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES
THEY DON’T WANT TO BE NOTICED
All of that talking and extraneous noise was so distracting. I don’t know that
I would ever be able to be comfortable with that… If there were games I
could play and not have to hear all of that, that would be okay. But otherwise I
don’t know that I would be able to get past that part.”
THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES
THEY FELT EASILY OVERWHELMED AND
THEY WANTED TO WITHDRAW
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS &
NEXT STEPS
P R O P O S E D S O L U T I O N S
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N E X T S T E P S
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D O W N L O A D T H E F U L L S T U D Y A T
W W W . E X T E N D E D M I N D . I O / S O C I A L - V R
F I L L O U T A S U R V E Y A B O U T Y O U R E X P E R I E N C E S I N S O C I A L V R
H T T P : / / T I N Y U R L . C O M / Y D D E F 4 H 3
T W E E T Q U E S T I O N S T O @ T H E E X T E N D E D M I N D

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Women's First-time Experiences in Social VR: VRDC 2017 Recap

  • 1. ROAD TO ART3MIS: WOMEN'S FIRST-TIME EXPERIENCES IN SOCIAL VR Suzanne Leibrick, Presenter Jessica Outlaw M.S. and Beth Duckles Ph.D., researchers Tweet Questions to @TheExtendedMind
  • 2. MEET HELEN ● 23 years old ● Professional software developer ● Uses social media daily / interacts with strangers there ● Regularly plays mobile and board and occasionally Steam games
  • 3. HELEN’S IMPRESSIONS OF SOCIAL VR “People can interact with you semi-violently.” “When people got close to me I felt the same as like if someone got close to me in real life. Like there was this one guy who kept running around me in circles and I was like ‘Dude back off’” “I don’t think I would do [this] just for fun.”
  • 4. WHAT HAPPENED? ● Helen’s characteristics led us to believe she would like VR ● However, she found it creepy ● Gender appears to be fundamentally ignored in social VR experiences
  • 5. PROBLEM STATEMENT Females in Social VR get unwanted attention, which is a barrier to adoption. How might we learn more about female users in order to make Social VR appealing to all?
  • 6. HERE’S WHAT WE DID ● Recruited 13 tech-savvy Millennial women who had never tried social VR before ● 30 minute unguided experience of RecRoom, Facebook Spaces, or AltSpaceVR (or a combination) followed by 30 min post interview.
  • 9. “One of the first things he said to me was ‘hey beautiful’ and…I automatically jumped back…my body and my avatar…At one point I brought up my boyfriend and we kept talking and he said ‘don’t tell your boyfriend about this’ and I was like ‘Nah, I’m going to tell him all about this because this is pretty cool.’” FLIRTING: WOMEN FELT SINGLED OUT FOR ATTENTION AND THEY DIDN’T LIKE IT SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
  • 10. Someone…kept shoving a marshmallow in my mouth and I didn’t want him to do that and he kept doing it... It felt very bro-ish and entitled for the dude to be... I was trying to explore and told him I didn’t... not to shove marshmallows in my mouth, but that behavior didn’t surprise me.” DISRESPECTING BOUNDARIES SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
  • 11. “…the people who were randomly in the game behind me totally freaked me out. Partly because the avatars are a little scary, and partly because you have no sense of where they are. And there is really no clarity of... are you playing the same game as me? There’s always like... ‘Why are you here? Are we playing the same game? Are we playing together?…Are we passing by?’ It’s almost like the codes of interaction around that are really unclear.” SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING LACK OF SOCIAL NORMS
  • 12. A 2014 Cornell University survey of 4,872 American women under the age of 40 found that 85% of women reported being harassed in a public space (e.g., catcalling, being followed, etc.) before they reached the age of 17. SOME CONTEXT OF WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
  • 13. Understanding women’s real life experiences with social dynamics and harassment will help VR creators anticipate the needs of and design for half the population. IMPLICATIONS SOCIAL DYNAMICS WERE CHALLENGING
  • 15. For 13/13 women in the study, learning the mechanics of moving in the virtual space was a barrier to engagement. NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
  • 16. “In the same way that some people sit in the corner of the restaurant so they can see the door, so they can control the situation, I don’t choose often to get into situations where I can’t control the outcomes. … if it were going to be something I would use on a regular basis, I would definitely need to understand the mechanics better.” NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT NOT UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANICS IS A SAFETY ISSUE
  • 17. “I wanted more control over what I was doing and the controls were all over the place. Like the screen popping up and the control panel and another panel popped up and then I couldn’t necessarily get them all to go away at the same time. It became way too much. I started to feel weirdly claustrophobic. I was being engulfed by my drawings.” USERS WANTED TO FEEL LIKE THEY WERE IN CHARGE NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT
  • 18. “It was weird. Everybody seemed to know what they were doing and I was the only one who felt ‘I don’t know what I’m doing here, I don’t know these people…They seemed really comfortable. I wasn’t really sure, other than exploring, I didn’t know how things worked.” NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT PARTICIPANTS STRUGGLED WITH WHAT TO DO
  • 19. All respondents expressed a dislike or a frustration in time spent navigating (or LOCATING) menus. In Facebook Spaces (left), users have to press a small arrow to reveal more menu choices. In Rec Room, users couldn’t remember they have to look at their left wrist to pull up the menu and asked for help. NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT DON’T HIDE MENUS
  • 20. Some respondents repeatedly jabbed items in the menu even when they couldn’t select or figure out how to press or pull a trigger to make the menu work. Here the participant was trying to select the color green with your left hand and getting frustrated that it wasn’t working. The participant had to dip the point of the pencil into the palette to select green. NAVIGATING THE VIRTUAL SPACE WAS DIFFICULT LEARNING THE CONTROLLERS TAKES TIME
  • 22. “I didn’t have an interest in changing my avatar to something I was interested in because I can’t even see it. … I ended up changing it to a robot. I thought it was cool looking which is why I chose it, but I did not spend very much time thinking ‘this is what I want’...I was just ‘okay I’ll get that one.’” THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES AVATAR CUSTOMIZATION WASN’T INTERESTING
  • 23. “It was kind of nice just being a generic avatar because I kind of got the feeling from the beginning, like if I had been a blonde girl… If I was an attractive avatar it would be weird… Like unwanted attention and they would all talk to me and be annoying.” “The only real discomfort is when you start out, your avatar is a balding white male. And I am not a balding white male.” THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES AVATAR CUSTOMIZATION WASN’T INTERESTING
  • 24. If I’m in an online game, my standard practice is to mute anyways, because I’m not going to interact outside of the game-playing mechanisms. That helps as a baseline level…. I think my negative experiences predispose me not to want to communicate that way.” THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES THEY DON’T WANT TO BE NOTICED
  • 25. All of that talking and extraneous noise was so distracting. I don’t know that I would ever be able to be comfortable with that… If there were games I could play and not have to hear all of that, that would be okay. But otherwise I don’t know that I would be able to get past that part.” THEY COULDN’T EXPRESS THEMSELVES THEY FELT EASILY OVERWHELMED AND THEY WANTED TO WITHDRAW
  • 27. P R O P O S E D S O L U T I O N S _
  • 28. N E X T S T E P S _ D O W N L O A D T H E F U L L S T U D Y A T W W W . E X T E N D E D M I N D . I O / S O C I A L - V R F I L L O U T A S U R V E Y A B O U T Y O U R E X P E R I E N C E S I N S O C I A L V R H T T P : / / T I N Y U R L . C O M / Y D D E F 4 H 3 T W E E T Q U E S T I O N S T O @ T H E E X T E N D E D M I N D

Notas del editor

  1. FURTHER COMPLICATING EXISTING ANXIETIES ABOUT BEING IN A PUBLIC SPACE IS THAT NAVIGATION IS DIFFICULT
  2. In addition to walking along the perimeter of any space. They were intentionally silent. They are trying to NOT attract a lot of attention. THESE THINGS THAT I’VE TOLD YOU MIRROR HOW WOMEN ACT IN REAL LIFE Current Social VR platforms with the existing features are not appealing to females, a group that has the largest purchasing power in the world. Only 1 of the 13 participants told us that she wanted to buy the VR hardware