Social And Multi-User Spaces In VR: Trolling, Harassment, And Online Safety

Overview

Authors: Michelle Cortese, Jessica Outlaw

Publication Date: 22 December 2021

Link: https://standards.ieee.org/wp-content/uploads/import/governance/iccom/social-multi-user-spaces-vr.pdf

Keywords: Social virtual reality, multi-user VR, trolling, harassment, online safety, ethical interaction design, user empowerment, content moderation, community norms, XR ethics

Type: Standards/Specifications

Summary

This report is the result of work within the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Extended Reality (XR), a multidiscipline group of industry practitioners, ethicists, academics, researchers, educators, and technology enthusiasts. It has been written to focus on a wide range of ethical issues related to XR and the ownership of second lives. This report builds on work outlined in the “Extended Reality” chapter of the IEEE’s seminal ethics-focused publication Ethically Aligned Design. XR is a term used to broadly refer to a suite of immersive technologies including virtual reality, augmented reality, and spatial computing. The scope of this report is the exploration of ethics-related issues in terms of virtual clones and the right to your identity; the aim is to initiate expert-driven, multidiscipline analysis of the evolving XR Ethics requirements, with a vision to propose solutions, technologies, and standards in future updates. The set of recommendations within this report will hopefully contribute to industry conceptualization of socio-technological issues, highlight concreted recommendations, and lay the groundwork for future technical-standardization activities.