Joining Nicole Ellison in this episode of JCMC: The Discussion are Eugy Han and Dr. Kristine Nowak, two of the authors behind the recently published “People, Places, and Time: A Large-scale, Longitudinal Study of Transformed Avatars and Environmental Context in Group Interaction in the Metaverse”. In addition to discussing their findings, Han and Dr. Nowak share how their transition to remote learning, and subsequent experimentations with VR, informed and inspired this recent study. Han and Dr. Nowak go on to share some advice for scholars interested in integrating VR into their work as well as further discuss potential future applications for VR in academia and research. 

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Featuring

Nicole Ellison 

Eugy Han 

Kristine Nowak

More from our guests: 

Nicole Ellison 

Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information  

University of Michigan 

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Twitter: @nicole_ellison; @ica_jcmc

Eugy Han

PhD Candidate & SGF Fellow | Department of Communication

Scholar | Virtual Human Interaction Lab 

Stanford University

Twitter: @eugyhan

LinkedIn: Eugy Han

Kristine Nowak

Professor | Department of Communication 

Director | Human-Computer Interaction Lab 

University of Connecticut 

Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Professor | Department of Engineering 

University of Palermo 

Twitter: @profknowak 

LinkedIn: Kristine Nowak 

Works Referenced In Episode:

Han, E., Miller, M. R., DeVeaux, C., Jun, H., Nowak, K. L., Hancock, J. T., ... & Bailenson, J. N. (2023). People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(2), zmac031.
Han, E., Nowak, K. L., & Bailenson, J. N. (2022). Prerequisites for Learning in Networked Immersive Virtual Reality.

Kraut, R., Scherlis, W., Mukhopadhyay, T., Manning, J., & Kiesler, S. (1996, April). HomeNet: A field trial of residential Internet services. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 284-291).

Mystakidis, S. (2022). Metaverse. Encyclopedia, 2(1), 486-497.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown