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

Ekaterina R. Stepanova, John Desnoyers-Stewart, Bernhard E. Riecke. Diffusing Social Boundaries through Virtual Bodies: How Mixed Reality Embodied Experiences Can Foster Social Connection. In Nuria Oliver, David A. Shamma, Heloisa Candello, Pablo César, Pedro Lopes 0001, Alessandro Bozzon, Thomas Kosch, Vera Q. Liao, Xiaojuan Ma, Valentino Artizzu, Fiona Draxler, Gustavo López 0001, Anke V. Reinschluessel, Xin Tong 0004, Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, editors, Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2026, Barcelona, Spain, April 13-17, 2026. ACM, 2026. [doi]

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Ekaterina R. Stepanova

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John Desnoyers-Stewart

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Bernhard E. Riecke

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