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Measuring simulator sickness in VR: a guide for UX researchers
VR immersion and its effect on the body is still a relatively new area of research, especially since low-cost VR solutions have only been around for a few years as of the time of this article. As a result, much of this information is either considered taboo to talk about in industry or confined solely to dense academic literature.
The goal of this article is to help summarize my learnings from academic literature reviews and my industry UX research experience alike.
New to XR? Start Working with AR and VR Technology Right Now!
As a veteran of the XR industry, I constantly get questions about how to get started with AR/VR. There are many ways to do this, but provide beginners with key information needed to explore XR technology or prepare for a potential job in the industry.
Start Managing Your Biases to Become a Better Human in Tech
All of the technology we have today is a result of human invention and ingenuity. We have computers to help, but ultimately, even those tools were created by us. We cannot escape the simple fact that tech is, fundamentally, a human enterprise. Here we dive into how to start analyzing these ideas by taking a closer look at our bias. — Featured in The Startup
The VR Professional’s Guide to Sustainable Immersion: Protecting Your Eyes and Your Productivity
If you’re a VR professional who needs to use headsets for extended periods, hours in the headset quickly add up. If you’re not careful, these cumulative hours can take a toll on your eye health and vision long-term, which may start affecting your work, not to mention your general life quality. In this article we discuss how this technology affects our health to avoid harm and continue our work and lives. — Featured in The Startup
Academic Publications
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Professors Prioritize Increasing Female Retention in Academic Physics Over Advisee’s Interests (2022)
Decades of initiatives have striven to fix the so-called “leaking pipeline” problem—persistent high attrition of women from the career/educational path toward STEM professorship. Though these initiatives call on academics to increase female retention along this path, it remains unknown whether academics actually prioritize this goal. To investigate this, we tested whether academics would prioritize female retention at the cost of a competing goal when giving career advice to students at risk of leaving the “pipeline.” Our research considered professors from both STEM and non-STEM departments for this analysis.
Methods: Survey with vignettes using mixed effects logistic regressions
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