TY - GEN
T1 - Developing an Ethical Framework for Virtual Reality Design and Implementation in Technical Communication
AU - Lambrecht, Kathryn
AU - Carradini, Stephen
AU - Lauer, Claire
AU - Mara, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 ACM.
PY - 2024/10/28
Y1 - 2024/10/28
N2 - For those working in technical fields, the promise of Virtual Reality (VR) to provide engaging experiences that go beyond typical learning modalities has enormous potential to expand how we communicate with a variety of audiences. However, as is common with emerging technologies, intentionality, strategy, and ethical considerations attached to VR need to be designed from the ground up, rather than as an afterthought. In this paper, we offer one framework for building ethics into the design of Virtual Reality experiences to ensure that the process is centered in community and student needs. Grounding our work in an advanced water purification VR project that we created with our students and Immersive Experience partners, we share the ethical framing, course sequencing, and engagement strategies that we employed to ensure an ethical design.
AB - For those working in technical fields, the promise of Virtual Reality (VR) to provide engaging experiences that go beyond typical learning modalities has enormous potential to expand how we communicate with a variety of audiences. However, as is common with emerging technologies, intentionality, strategy, and ethical considerations attached to VR need to be designed from the ground up, rather than as an afterthought. In this paper, we offer one framework for building ethics into the design of Virtual Reality experiences to ensure that the process is centered in community and student needs. Grounding our work in an advanced water purification VR project that we created with our students and Immersive Experience partners, we share the ethical framing, course sequencing, and engagement strategies that we employed to ensure an ethical design.
KW - community engagement
KW - ethics
KW - Virtual reality
KW - water conservation
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U2 - 10.1145/3641237.3691649
DO - 10.1145/3641237.3691649
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85212229687
T3 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2024
SP - 37
EP - 44
BT - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2024
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2024
Y2 - 20 October 2024 through 21 October 2024
ER -