Bernhard E. Riecke

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A Tree’s Perspective: Enhancing Nature Connectedness Through Transitional and Multisensory Virtual Reality Experiences

Embodying natural entities in Virtual Reality (VR) shows potential to enhance nature connectedness, but design factors that support such embodiment remain underexplored. This study examined whether transitional elements in the physical setting before and after VR and multisensory stimuli during VR can strengthen natur…

CHI '26CorrespondingSocial & Collaborative VR +3

Diffusing Social Boundaries through Virtual Bodies: How Mixed Reality Embodied Experiences Can Foster Social Connection.

Virtual and Mixed Reality (XR) offer new opportunities for supporting social connection by reshaping embodied interaction and transforming social norms. We present Body RemiXer, an asymmetric XR installation designed to foster connection by inviting interpersonal touch, abstracting identity through ethereal avatars, e…

CHI '25CorrespondingMid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +2

Being in Virtual Worlds: How Interaction, Environment, and Touch Shape Embodiment in Immersive Experiences

Embodiment is an everyday experience that typically goes unnoticed. While we often take it for granted, with the adoption of virtual reality (VR) technology, embodiment in virtual bodies and worlds has become an important consideration for designers of immersive experiences. To date, the VR design community has primar…

DIS '23CorrespondingImmersion & Presence Research +2

Awedyssey: Design Tensions in Eliciting Self-transcendent Emotions in Virtual Reality to Support Mental Well-being and Connection

Access to nature and feeling connection is critical for mental health and well-being. These benefits may be mediated by self-transcendent emotions evoked by nature. We need to explore the capacity of technology to offer such experiences when we lack access to the restorative power of nature. Despite growing resea…

CHI '22CorrespondingAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +1

Strategies for Fostering a Genuine Feeling of Connection in Technologically Mediated Systems

Human connection is essential for our personal well-being and a building block for a well-functioning society. There is a prominent interest in the potential of technology for mediating social connection, with a wealth of systems designed to foster the feeling of connection between strangers, friends, and family. By s…

CHI '22CorrespondingFull-Body Interaction & Embodied Input +1

Virtual Transcendent Dream: Empowering People through Embodied Flying in VR

Flying dreams have the potential to evoke a feeling of empowerment (or self-efficacy, confidence in our ability to succeed) and self-transcendent experience (STE), which have been shown to contribute to an individual’s overall well-being. However, these exceptional dreaming experiences remain difficult to induce at wi…

DIS '20CorrespondingImmersion & Presence Research +2

JeL: Breathing Together to Connect with Others and Nature

Bio-responsive immersive Virtual Reality can transform our interactions to bring awareness to our physiological rhythms fostering connection with our bodies, each other and nature. JeL is an immersive installation that aims to foster a feeling of connection through the process of breathing synchronization. Two imme…

DIS '20CorrespondingImmersion & Presence Research +1

Designing Mind(set) and Setting for Profound Emotional Experiences in Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to support profound emotional experiences, such as experiencing awe when virtually viewing the Earth from space. In doing so, VR can potentially both give people positive emotional experiences contributing to their overall well-being and give researchers a way to study these prof…

CHI '20CorrespondingMid-Air Haptics (Ultrasonic) +1

FaceHaptics: Robot Arm based Versatile Facial Haptics for Immersive Environments

This paper introduces FaceHaptics, a novel haptic display based on a robot arm attached to a head-mounted virtual reality display. It provides localized, multi-directional and movable haptic cues in the form of wind, warmth, moving and single-point touch events and water spray to dedicated parts of the face not covere…

CHI '204th AuthorMental Health Apps & Online Support Communities +2

Inhaling and Exhaling: How Technologies Can Perceptually Extend our Breath Awareness

Attending to breath is a self-awareness practice that exists within many contemplative and reflective traditions and is recognized for its benefits to well-being. Our current technological landscape embraces a large body of systems that utilize breath data in order to foster self-awareness. This paper seeks to deepen…

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