Can extended reality in the metaverse revolutionise health communication?
- Author(s)
- Adela Plechata, Guido Makransky, Robert Böhm
- Abstract
In the metaverse, users will actively engage with 3D content using extended reality (XR). Such XR platforms can stimulate a revolution in health communication, moving from information-based to experience-based content. We outline three major application domains and describe how the XR affordances (presence, agency and embodiment) can improve healthy behaviour by targeting the users’ threat and coping appraisal. We discuss how health communication via XR can help to address long-standing health challenges.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology
- External organisation(s)
- University of Copenhagen
- Journal
- npj Digital Medicine
- Volume
- 5
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 2398-6352
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-022-00682-x
- Publication date
- 09-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501021 Social psychology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health Information Management, Health Informatics, Medicine (miscellaneous), Computer Science Applications
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/can-extended-reality-in-the-metaverse-revolutionise-health-communication(167e749a-5e64-4536-8e04-847c7ea30c16).html