Burger, Katharina;
(2025)
Exploring approachability in social virtual reality: Scaffolding social translucence.
Computers in Human Behavior
, 172
, Article 108739. 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108739.
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Abstract
Approachability in social virtual reality (sVR), a technology with growing relevance for education and knowledge work, remains underexplored, particularly in relation to novice users. Drawing on social translucence theory and Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), this study explores how affordances for visibility, awareness, and accountability may be realised through avatar-mediated peer-to-peer scaffolding. While scaffolding may not fully explain or ensure approachability, drawing on empirical episodes from a qualitative sVR workshop with novices, we highlight its role in shaping early user experiences. This encourages attention to strategies that may help novices 'fail forward together', leveraging the inherently social nature of sVR for approachability as a developmental experience.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring approachability in social virtual reality: Scaffolding social translucence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chb.2025.108739 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108739 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Approachability, Social virtual reality, Affordances, Scaffolding, Social translucence, Zone of Proximal Development |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10210469 |
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