Immersive Virtual Reality (VR)
This paper explores performing Go-along interviews in Immersive Virtual Reality (VR).
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Go-along interviewing is an emerging qualitative research method听where researcher and interviewee go together to a听location relevant for the research. Usually employed in ethnographic studies,听the method is used to provide a听contextualized understanding of a听participant鈥檚 experience. This paper explores performing Go-along听interviews in听Immersive Virtual Reality (VR). Through an analysis听of ten interviews conducted inside our participants鈥� Virtual Mind听Palaces we show how the interlocutors鈥� shared presence in the听virtual environment established a common ground听beneficial for听communication. Being in VR enabled our participants to demonstrate interactions spontaneously, and,听by providing a guided tour,听show us relevant objects and locations in their Virtual Mind Palace.
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Joakim Vindenes and Barbara Wasson. 2021. Show, don鈥檛 tell: Using Go-along Interviews in Immersive Virtual Reality. Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 190鈥�204.
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