Five coordinated studies of virtual meetings, well-being, and equity, with findings grounded in large-scale NLP, multi-phase survey research, qualitative interviews, experimental testing, and a prototype platform built in VRChat.
How platform design, meeting structure, and individual attributes interact to produce exhaustion and disengagement in virtual work. Meta-analytic synthesis plus primary data from surveys, interviews, and experiments.
How users present themselves in mediated spaces: the mechanics of avatar-based self-presentation, its demographic patterns, and its implications for professional identity and psychological safety.
The affordances and constraints of virtual platforms for creating the felt experience of being with others, with implications for both professional meetings and educational spaces.
Where virtual meeting design amplifies or attenuates existing workplace inequities. Evidence on differential fatigue, differential valuation of customization, and differential participation outcomes.
Playful design elements (gesture tools, ambient objects, stylized environments) as an engagement strategy and a fatigue-reduction tool. Grounded in game studies and design justice.
Values-based, research-grounded virtual meeting platform design. Principles derived from the four empirical studies, implemented in the Beyond Meet Space platform in VRChat.
15+ peer-reviewed publications across top outlets in communication, HCI, game studies, and educational technology.
Frontiers in Communication
Computers in Human Behavior Reports
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
Journal of Media Psychology, 37(2), 61–63
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 17, 100571
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 18, 100673
PLOS One
Computers & Education
Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, USA
Computers in Human Behavior
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
2024 Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA: Limits and Margins of Games, Guadalajara, Mexico
2024 Proceedings of DiGRA: Limits and Margins of Games, Guadalajara, Mexico
Association of Internet Researchers, Selected Papers of Internet Research
Proceedings of the 2023 DiGRA International Conference
Proceedings of the 2023 DiGRA International Conference
IEEE Transactions on Games, 14(3), 466–477
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 25(2)
CHI PLAY '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 237–241
Our synthesis paper, Beyond Skeuomorphic Virtual Meetings, brings together five years of research into five design principles for virtual meetings, and introduces the BMS prototype as an implementation. Currently seeking a home; preprint on request.