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Stress and coping in VRChat: A mixed-method case study of the use of VRChat as a coping tool during the COVID-19 pandemic Open

Alex Leith, Chaeyun Lim, Maxwell Foxman, David Beyea, David C. Jeong · 2025

Applying the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) Framework and the Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping, this study examines how individuals utilized the social virtual reality (VR) platform VRChat to address the heightened stress of the…

Balancing fun and professionalism in game development: the dark and light side of play in virtual meetings Open

Dalton Bouzek, Maxwell Foxman, Chaeyun Lim, Alex Leith · 2025

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated remote work adoption in the game development industry, an already precarious field characterized by “crunch” culture and ludopolitics. Against this backdrop, this study examines the dual natur…

Meeting needs: How social interaction anxiety, zoom fatigue, relatedness, and demographics predict virtual meeting feature preferences Open

Chaeyun Lim, Alex Leith, Rabindra Ratan, Maxwell Foxman, Dalton Bouzek · 2025

Examining attitudes about the virtual workplace: Associations between zoom fatigue, impression management, and virtual meeting adoption intent Open

Chaeyun Lim, Rabindra Ratan, Maxwell Foxman, David Beyea, H. David Jeong , et al. · 2025

Impression management is a crucial tactic within the workplace milieu. This study establishes a connection between impression management and the negative self-evaluation stemming from heightened self-monitoring during virtual meetings (VM)…

FOCUSING ON VIRTUAL GROUPS: A METHOD FOR FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS IN XR/VR GROUP SETTINGS Open

Oskar Milik, Dayeoun Jang, Maxwell Foxman, Brian Klebig, David Beyea , et al. · 2025

The art of Internet Research is always developing, while also firmly rooted in the theoretical frameworks of the past. As technologies have evolved over time, new ways of interacting have become pervasive, and with them, a need for a diffe…

Stress and Coping in Vrchat: A Mixed-Method Case Study of the Use of Vrchat as a Coping Tool During the Covid-19 Pandemic Open

Alex Leith, Chaeyun Lim, Maxwell Foxman, David Beyea, H. David Jeong · 2025

Zoom fatigue in review: A meta-analytical examination of videoconferencing fatigue's antecedents Open

David Beyea, Chaeyun Lim, Alex Lover, Maxwell Foxman, Rabindra Ratan , et al. · 2024

As videoconferencing increasingly integrates with modern life, becoming a regular part of work, education, and socialization, the adverse outcomes of increased usage have become a concern to researchers. Multiple scholars have examined Vid…

Making a Virtual Playground: Values-Based Game Design inMeeting Platforms Open

Maxwell Foxman, Dalton Bouzek, Chaeyun Lim, Rabindra Ratan, Brian Klebig , et al. · 2024

A dynamic surface water extent service for Africa developed through continental-scale collaboration Open

Meghan Halabisky, F. Yuan, Ghislain Adimou, Eloise Birchall, Edward Boamah , et al. · 2024

Spatially explicit, near real time information on surface water dynamics is critical for understanding changes in water resources, and for long-term water security planning. The distribution of surface water across the African continent si…

Digital Earth Australia notebooks and tools repository Open

Carola Krause, Brian Kimball Dunn, Robbi Bishop‐Taylor, Cheryll M. Adams, Christina Burton , et al. · 2024

The Digital Earth Australia notebooks and tools repository ('DEA notebooks') hosts Jupyter Notebooks, Python scripts and workflows for analysing Digital Earth Australia (DEA) satellite data and derived products. The repository is intended …

Supporting Underrepresented Workers’ Well-Being in Virtual Meetings: An Exploratory Study Linking Uses and Gratification, Self-Determination Theory to Usage of Virtual Meeting Features Open

Chaeyun Lim, Alex Leith, Rabindra Ratan, Maxwell Foxman, Dalton Bouzek · 2024

How Bad is Zoom Fatigue? A Meta-Analytical Examination of Research on the Antecedents of Videoconference Fatigue Open

David Beyea, Chaeyun Lim, Alexander Lover, Maxwell Foxman, Rabindra Ratan , et al. · 2024

Think global, cube local: an Earth Observation Data Cube’s contribution to the Digital Earth vision Open

Martin Sudmanns, Hannah Augustin, Brian Killough, Grégory Giuliani, Dirk Tiede , et al. · 2022

The technological landscape for managing big Earth observation (EO) data ranges from global solutions on large cloud infrastructures with web-based access to self-hosted implementations. EO data cubes are a leading technology for facilitat…

Water Observations from Space: accurate maps of surface water through time for the continent of Africa Open

Meghan Halabisky, Kenneth Mubea, Fatou Mar, F. Yuan, Chad Burton , et al. · 2022

Earth observation of waterbodies through time is a powerful tool in understanding both the location of waterbodies and their temporal dynamics. Water Observations from Space (WOfS), developed and well-tested in Australia, is a service prov…

An Operational Analysis Ready Radar Backscatter Dataset for the African Continent Open

F. Yuan, Marko Repse, Alex Leith, Åke Rosenqvist, Grega Milčinski , et al. · 2022

Digital Earth Africa is now providing an operational Sentinel-1 normalized radar backscatter dataset for Africa. This is the first free and open continental scale analysis ready data of this kind that has been developed to be compliant wit…

Beyond Genre: Classifying Virtual Reality Experiences Open

Maxwell Foxman, David Beyea, Alex Leith, Rabindra Ratan, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen , et al. · 2021

Because virtual reality (VR) shares common features with video games, consumer content is usually classified according to traditional game genres and standards. However, VR offers different experiences based on the medium's unique affordan…

Virtual Reality Genres Open

Maxwell Foxman, Alex Leith, David Beyea, Brian Klebig, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen , et al. · 2020

Even though virtual reality (VR) shares features with video games, it offers a wider range of experiences. There is currently no cohesive classification for commercial VR offerings. As a first step to account for this deficiency, the work …

A data-driven collaborative-planning approach for developing sustainable medium-density housing in cities Open

Ori Gudes, Christopher Pettit, Stephen Glackin, Alex Leith · 2018

Australia’s cities face significant social, economic and environmental challenges, driven by population growth and rapid urbanisation. The pressure to increase the availability of housing, including a move to a more compact urban form, wil…

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