Erfan Dastournejad. Portion of Actual Conversations for the Virtual World, 2022. Installed at the 2022 MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery. Photo by Jueqian Fang.
Erfan Dastournejad. "Actual Conversations for the Virtual World." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2022.
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Conversations in the metaverse (Social VR) are a distorted reflection of the familiar real-world experience. The information insufficiencies such as incorrect context or lack of nonverbal signals, prevent these virtual experiences, from fully recreating a “real” conversational experience. My thesis project, is a set of design suggestions I culminated, focusing on making it easier to join/initiate conversations in social virtual reality. Also, a high-fidelity VR prototype supplements the demonstration and visualization of these suggested concepts.

Read Medium post about the research phase.

Read Medium post about the design phase.

View images and read a related commentary on the Graduate Showcase website.

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Completed/published
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