Now that high-end consumer phones can support immersive virtual reality, we ask whether
social virtual reality is a promising medium for supporting distributed groups of users. We …

Background Depression and anxiety are common and debilitating mental disorders with
severe negative repercussions at both individual and societal levels. Although virtual reality …

A growing body of research is examining the way that virtual reality (VR) technology might
enrich the lives of older adults. However, no studies have yet examined how this technology …

Avatar customization is known to positively affect crucial outcomes in numerous domains.
However, it is unknown whether audial customization can confer the same benefits as visual …

In video games, identification with avatars—virtual entities or characters driven by human
behavior—has been shown to serve many interpersonal and intraindividual functions (like …

Choreomorphy is inspired by the Greek words" choros"(dance) and" morphe"(shape). Visual
metaphors, such as the notion of transformation, and visual imagery are widely used in …

Leveraging existing popular games such as Pokémon GO to promote health can engage
people in healthy activities without sacrificing gaming appeal. However, little is known about …

Abstract The diagnosis of Gaming Disorder (GD) has been recently proposed in the beta
draft of the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) by the World …

Excessive salt intake is increasingly seen as global health threat. As contemporary
education campaigns and current mHealth solutions only reach health literate users, an …

This research explores the relationship between character creation systems in digital games
and the potential for players to create and embody fat characters via those systems. The …