Guo Freeman on Leveraging Human AI Collaboration to Mitigate Embodied Harassment in Social VR Spaces

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College of Innovation & Technology at the University of Michigan-Flint seminar on Sept 27, 2024 by Guo Freeman (Clemson University).

In recent years, the growing popularity of commercial social VR platforms such as VR Chat, RecRoom, and Meta Horizon Worlds is dramatically transforming how people meet, interact, play, and collaborate online. In social VR, multiple users can interact with one another through VR head-mounted displays in 3D virtual spaces. Unlike in traditional online social spaces where one’s social interactions are mediated by a screen, social VR arguably offers heightened social experiences through a unique combination of partial or full-body-tracked avatars, synchronous voice conversations, and simulated touching and grabbing features. These novel characteristics have led to varied issues regarding inclusion and safety, including intensified and more physicalized forms of online harassment. In this talk, Dr. Guo Freeman will introduce her multi-year research on challenges in understanding and effectively mitigating new forms of “embodied harassment” in social VR. She will also explain her ongoing work on leveraging human-AI collaboration as a new threat mitigation mechanism to moderate embodied harassment in hopes of fostering safer online spaces in the future.
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