@article{18fe200243784041aa1a151f375cf33b,
title = "From Digital Media to Empathic Spaces: A Systematic Review of Empathy Research in Extended Reality Environments",
abstract = "Recent advances in extended reality (XR) technologies have enabled new and increasingly realistic empathy tools and experiences. In XR, all interactions take place in different spatial contexts, all with different features, affordances, and constraints. We present a systematic literature survey of recent work on empathy in XR. As a result, we contribute a research roadmap with three future opportunities and six open questions in XR-enabled empathy research across both physical and virtual spaces.",
keywords = "empathy, Extended reality (XR), human-computer interaction (HCI), metaverse, spatiality",
author = "Ville Paananen and Kiarostami, {Mohammad Sina} and Lee Lik-Hang and Tristan Braud and Simo Hosio",
note = "Funding information: This research is connected to the GenZ strategic profiling project at the University of Oulu, supported by the Academy of Finland (project number 318930), Biocenter Oulu, the Strategic Research Council (SRC), established within the Academy of Finland (Grants 335625, 335729), and Academy Research Fellow funding by Academy of Finland (Grants 349637 and 353790). This research is also partially supported by the Starting Grant of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).",
year = "2024",
month = may,
day = "31",
doi = "10.1145/3626518",
language = "English",
volume = "56",
journal = "ACM Computing Surveys",
issn = "0360-0300",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
number = "5",
}