论文标题
“这只是我的一部分：“了解社会虚拟现实中残疾人的化身多样性和自我表现
"It's Just Part of Me:" Understanding Avatar Diversity and Self-presentation of People with Disabilities in Social Virtual Reality
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论文摘要
在社交虚拟现实（VR）中，用户体现在化身中，并以化身为媒介以面对面的方式与其他用户进行交互。随着社会VR的出现，残疾人（PWD）在这种新的社交媒体上表现出越来越多的存在。凭借其独特的残疾身份，尚不清楚PWD如何看待其化身，以及他们在社交VR中表现出来时是否以及如何披露其残疾。我们通过探索社会VR中PWD的头像感知和残疾披露偏好来填补这一空白。我们的研究涉及两个步骤。我们首先对15个流行的社会VR应用程序进行了系统的审查，以评估其头像多样性和可访问性支持。然后，我们对19名有不同残疾的参与者进行了深入的访谈研究，以了解其化身经历。我们的研究揭示了PWD采用的许多残疾披露偏好和策略（例如，反映了选择性的残疾，表现出有能力的自我）。我们还确定了PWD在其化身定制过程中面临的几个挑战。我们讨论了为未来的社交VR平台促进化身的可访问性和多样性的设计含义。
In social Virtual Reality (VR), users are embodied in avatars and interact with other users in a face-to-face manner using avatars as the medium. With the advent of social VR, people with disabilities (PWD) have shown an increasing presence on this new social media. With their unique disability identity, it is not clear how PWD perceive their avatars and whether and how they prefer to disclose their disability when presenting themselves in social VR. We fill this gap by exploring PWD's avatar perception and disability disclosure preferences in social VR. Our study involved two steps. We first conducted a systematic review of fifteen popular social VR applications to evaluate their avatar diversity and accessibility support. We then conducted an in-depth interview study with 19 participants who had different disabilities to understand their avatar experiences. Our research revealed a number of disability disclosure preferences and strategies adopted by PWD (e.g., reflect selective disabilities, present a capable self). We also identified several challenges faced by PWD during their avatar customization process. We discuss the design implications to promote avatar accessibility and diversity for future social VR platforms.
