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How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars?
In the virtual world, people can reconstruct their identity the way they want with avatars. Many expect the high degree of freedom in avatar customization will give new chances to socially marginalized people experiencing discrimination against their physical traits. Accordingly, research on a virtu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514139/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176810 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.994786 |
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author | Park, Jaeyoung Kim, Seongcheol |
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description | In the virtual world, people can reconstruct their identity the way they want with avatars. Many expect the high degree of freedom in avatar customization will give new chances to socially marginalized people experiencing discrimination against their physical traits. Accordingly, research on a virtual embodiment of marginalized people has been steady with increased interest in equity and inclusion. However, even discourse alienates people with disabilities. In addition, there are few studies on the virtual representations of people with disabilities. Therefore, this paper explores the shared perception of avatar-based disability representations among people with disability to help understand how they want to construct their disability with avatars. The study also gives direction for a barrier-free virtual world. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with people with physical impairments who used virtual world services and performed a core-periphery analysis of social representations. This study expands the range of academic adoption of the social representations theory and provides insights for stakeholders such as service providers to design an inclusive virtual world. |
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spelling | pubmed-95141392022-09-28 How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? Park, Jaeyoung Kim, Seongcheol Front Psychol Psychology In the virtual world, people can reconstruct their identity the way they want with avatars. Many expect the high degree of freedom in avatar customization will give new chances to socially marginalized people experiencing discrimination against their physical traits. Accordingly, research on a virtual embodiment of marginalized people has been steady with increased interest in equity and inclusion. However, even discourse alienates people with disabilities. In addition, there are few studies on the virtual representations of people with disabilities. Therefore, this paper explores the shared perception of avatar-based disability representations among people with disability to help understand how they want to construct their disability with avatars. The study also gives direction for a barrier-free virtual world. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with people with physical impairments who used virtual world services and performed a core-periphery analysis of social representations. This study expands the range of academic adoption of the social representations theory and provides insights for stakeholders such as service providers to design an inclusive virtual world. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9514139/ /pubmed/36176810 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.994786 Text en Copyright © 2022 Park and Kim. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Park, Jaeyoung Kim, Seongcheol How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? |
title | How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? |
title_full | How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? |
title_fullStr | How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? |
title_full_unstemmed | How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? |
title_short | How do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? |
title_sort | how do people with physical disabilities want to construct virtual identities with avatars? |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514139/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176810 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.994786 |
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