Virtual Feed: A Simulated Breastfeeding Experience in Virtual Reality | Semantic Scholar (2024)

This work presents Virtual Feed, a Virtual Reality breastfeeding simulation for parents-to-be developed following a three-step process, and shows that the simulation successfully engaged users and sparked curiosity, while also encouraging reflection about the challenges of breastfeeding.

This work examines how the addition of gamification to a Virtual Reality simulation of breastfeeding impacts player experience and reflection, and contributes considerations for the application ofgamification in personal and sensitive settings such as breastfeeding.

Through ISEs, participants are immersed in a speculative world depicted by the designers and can engage with it in its truest envisioned form and reflect on the challenges, limitations, and potential associated with the role of ISEs in the HCI discourse.

This study designs probes that explore the authentication process in VR, aiming to elicit responses from participants from multiple perspectives, and identifies users' conflicting expectations, encompassing their desire for an enjoyable VR experience alongside the assurance of secure VR authentication.

This work designs technology probes of authentication in VR based on existing authentication interactions in both VR and the physical world and embeds these probes in the routine payment of a VR game.

A mixed-methods approach that builds on the Integrated Behavioural Model is used to explore parents’ perspectives toward breastfeeding along with their lived experiences, and the role of technology in this setting is examined.

It is described how games can (and cannot) be leveraged to support the feeding journey and normalize breastfeeding, while respecting individual feeding choices.

Research on the relationships of personality, family and social environments, attitudes, and emotional states to breastfeeding outcomes, and interventions to address psychosocial needs are reviewed.

This research, "Real Baby - Real Family - VR Entertainment Baby Interaction System", is a project aimed at generating virtual baby avatars from any 2D facial images that closely resembles that of subjects.

A comprehensive overview of existing digital interventions that support breastfeeding by investigating systems’ objective, technology design, validation process, and quality attributes, both in terms of clinical parameters as well as usability and user experience is provided.

The author explores some of the ways that the woman who is breastfeeding her infant may experience intimacy, starting with identity and the woman's intimacy with herself and proceeding to the women's intimate interaction with her infant, partner, family, or significant friends.

The prior results are validated: real and full body avatar performance on a memory task is significantly better than no avatar, however the hands only condition is not significantly different than either these two extremes.

This provocation urges HCI researchers to rethink their idea of what intimacy is and offers directions of how to do so and shares an imaginary abstract that breaks with these conventions and shows potential benefits of expanding the view on intimacy.

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