@inproceedings{73732a38150f4ff49a38c3ce93024f2a,
title = "Understanding and Mitigating New Harms in Immersive and Embodied Virtual Spaces: A Speculative Dystopian Design Fiction Approach",
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.",
keywords = "ai, embodiment, harassment, harm mitigation, immersive virtual worlds, online harm, online safety, toxicity",
author = "Guo Freeman and Julian Frommel and Mandryk, \{Regan L.\} and Jan Gugenheimer and Lingyuan Li and Daniel Johnson and Cecilia Aragon and Asif, \{Syed Ali\} and Jakki Bailey and Meryem Barkallah and Braeden Burger and Sebastian Cmentowski and Jamie Hancock and Leanne Hides and Hongxin Hu and Yang Hu and Wangfan Li and Ruchi Panchanadikar and Niloofar Sayadi and Devin Tebbe and Leslie W{\"o}hler and Xinyue You and Zinan Zhang and Douglas Zytko",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 Owner/Author.; 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW Companion 2024 ; Conference date: 09-11-2024 Through 13-11-2024",
year = "2024",
month = nov,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1145/3678884.3681865",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery ",
pages = "288--295",
editor = "Michael Bernstein and Amy Bruckman and Ujwal Gadiraju and Aaron Halfaker and Xiaojuan Ma and Fabiano Pinatti and Miriam Redi and David Ribes and Saiph Savage and Amy Zhang",
booktitle = "CSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
address = "United States",
}