Christos Hadjipanayi, Maria Christofi, Domna Banakou, Despina Michael-Grigoriou
{"title":"Cultivating empathy through narratives in virtual reality: a review","authors":"Christos Hadjipanayi, Maria Christofi, Domna Banakou, Despina Michael-Grigoriou","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01812-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01812-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the potential of virtual reality (VR) as a powerful tool for storytelling and as a means of promoting empathy. This systematic review examines 20 research papers that were deemed relevant based on inclusion and exclusion criteria from a database of a total of 661 papers to investigate the use of VR for empathy-building through immersive storytelling. Thematic analysis of the interventions revealed that most of the narratives focused on the experiences of victims of abuse, social minorities, and individuals affected by medical conditions or political ramifications. These fall under three types of digital narratives identified as (a) personal, (b) historical, and (c) educational. Changes in empathy are identified either through comparisons with non-VR narratives or pre- and post-interventions. Interaction techniques, VR affordances, and methods to measure empathy are further identified. The review concludes that while VR shows promise as a tool for promoting empathy, more research is needed to fully understand its potential and limitations.</p>","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141172808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hajar Lamghari Elidrissi, Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, Abdelouahed Tajer
{"title":"Modular design and adaptive control of urban signalized intersections systems using synchronized timed Petri nets","authors":"Hajar Lamghari Elidrissi, Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, Abdelouahed Tajer","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01797-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01797-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"29 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141107520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Feasibility and performance enhancement of collaborative control of unmanned ground vehicles via virtual reality","authors":"Ziming Li, Yiming Luo, Jialin Wang, Yushan Pan, Lingyun Yu, Hai-Ning Liang","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01813-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01813-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141114037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel W. Heaton, Jérémie Clos, Elena Nichele, Joel E. Fischer
{"title":"“The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel”: analysing topics, sentiment and emotions relating to ChatGPT on Twitter","authors":"Daniel W. Heaton, Jérémie Clos, Elena Nichele, Joel E. Fischer","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01811-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01811-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"14 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141118584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does digitalization improve innovation performance of enterprises?—Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises survey","authors":"Huanhuan Liu","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01796-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01796-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"47 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141121834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation and optimization of Burg’s method for real-time packet loss concealment in networked music performance applications","authors":"M. Sacchetto, C. Rottondi, Andrea Bianco","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01806-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01806-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"89 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140963976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GenAI and me: the hidden work of building and maintaining an augmentative partnership","authors":"Nina Boulus-Rødje, Jocelyn Cranefield, Cathal Doyle, Benedicte Fleron","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01810-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01810-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"24 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140969801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feasibility and performance enhancement of collaborative control of unmanned ground vehicles via virtual reality","authors":"Ziming Li, Yiming Luo, Jialin Wang, Yushan Pan, Lingyun Yu, Hai-Ning Liang","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01799-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01799-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>To support people working in dangerous industries, virtual reality (VR) can ensure operators manipulate standardized tasks and work collaboratively to deal with potential risks. Surprisingly, limited research has paid attention to the cognitive load of operators in their collaborative tasks, especially via VR interfaces. Once task demands become complex, many researchers focus on optimizing the design of the interaction interfaces to reduce the cognitive load on the operator. In this paper, we propose a new collaborative VR system with edge enhancement to support two teleoperators working in the VR environment to remote control an uncrewed ground vehicle. We use a compared experiment to evaluate the collaborative VR systems, focusing on the time spent on tasks and the total number of operations. Our results show that the total number of processes and the cognitive load during operations were significantly lower in the two-person group than in the single-person group. Our study sheds light on designing VR systems to support collaborative work with respect to the flow of work of teleoperators instead of simply optimizing the design outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140928167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"User-trust centric lightweight access control for smart IoT crowd sensing applications in healthcare systems","authors":"Zahid Mahmood, Zeeshan Ashraf, Muddesar Iqbal, Beenish Farooq","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01803-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01803-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Internet of Things (IoT) enables healthcare systems to handle emergencies, where multiple authorities interact to perform tasks. Prevention of unauthorized access and defining access domains for legitimate users are crucial. Attribute-Based Access Control System (ABACS) techniques play a vital role in defining boundaries in a multi-agent environment. However, adopting traditional ABAC in IoT-based resource-constrained networks is not feasible. This research analyzes the effects of attributes as key performance metrics, including execution time, memory overhead, and computational complexities. To address these challenges, this research proposes a Physical-Social Attributes Access Control Policy (PS-ABACS) framework that secures Multiparty Computation (SMC), symmetric encryption, and randomization-based access control methods. PS-ABASC introduces a lightweight two-party set intersection technique to generate an access policy. The analysis shows that the proposed technique is efficient in computing access policy and session key generation, and less number of attributes based on randomness characteristics is appropriate for resource-constrained networks. Moreover, it demonstrates advancements by reducing memory usage up to 0.048 KB for 60 attributes. The framework generates session keys proficiently, encrypts data, and minimizes computational expenses through a randomized attribute vector. In terms of communication overhead, the framework surpasses expectations by supporting up to 100 attributes, resulting in a reduction of transmission costs to 1120 bits. Overall, this framework improves security, reduces resource consumption, and enhances data exchange efficiency in IoT ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elias Elmquist, Kajetan Enge, Alexander Rind, Carlo Navarra, Robert Höldrich, Michael Iber, Alexander Bock, Anders Ynnerman, Wolfgang Aigner, Niklas Rönnberg
{"title":"Parallel Chords: an audio-visual analytics design for parallel coordinates","authors":"Elias Elmquist, Kajetan Enge, Alexander Rind, Carlo Navarra, Robert Höldrich, Michael Iber, Alexander Bock, Anders Ynnerman, Wolfgang Aigner, Niklas Rönnberg","doi":"10.1007/s00779-024-01795-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01795-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One of the commonly used visualization techniques for multivariate data is the parallel coordinates plot. It provides users with a visual overview of multivariate data and the possibility to interactively explore it. While pattern recognition is a strength of the human visual system, it is also a strength of the auditory system. Inspired by the integration of the visual and auditory perception in everyday life, we introduce an audio-visual analytics design named <i>Parallel Chords</i> combining both visual and auditory displays. <i>Parallel Chords</i> lets users explore multivariate data using both visualization and sonification through the interaction with the axes of a parallel coordinates plot. To illustrate the potential of the design, we present (1) prototypical data patterns where the sonification helps with the identification of correlations, clusters, and outliers, (2) a usage scenario showing the sonification of data from non-adjacent axes, and (3) a controlled experiment on the sensitivity thresholds of participants when distinguishing the strength of correlations. During this controlled experiment, 35 participants used three different display types, the visualization, the sonification, and the combination of these, to identify the strongest out of three correlations. The results show that all three display types enabled the participants to identify the strongest correlation — with visualization resulting in the best sensitivity. The sonification resulted in sensitivities that were independent from the type of displayed correlation, and the combination resulted in increased enjoyability during usage.</p>","PeriodicalId":54628,"journal":{"name":"Personal and Ubiquitous Computing","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140886497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}