TY - CONF TI - Virtual Transcendent Dream: Empowering People through Embodied Flying in Virtual Reality AU - Liu, Pinyao AU - Stepanova, Ekaterina R AU - Kitson, Alexandra J. AU - Schiphorst, Thecla AU - Riecke, Bernhard E. T2 - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems AB - Flying dreams have the potential to evoke a feeling of empower- ment (or self-efficacy, confidence in our ability to succeed) and self-transcendent experience (STE), which have been shown to contribute to an individual’s overall well-being. However, these exceptional dreaming experiences remain difficult to induce at will. Inspired by the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) to support profound emotional experiences, we explored if a VR flying interface with more embodied self-motion cues could contribute to the benefits associated with flying dreams (i.e., STE and empowerment). Our results indicated that a flying interface with more self-motion cues indeed better supported STE and empowerment. We derived several design considerations: obscurity, extraordinary light and support- ive setting. Our results contribute to the discourse around design guidelines for self-transcendence and empowerment in VR, which may further be applied to the improvement of mental well-being. C1 - New Orleans C3 - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems DA - 2022/// PY - 2022 DO - 10.1145/3491102.3517677 DP - ACM Digital Library SP - 1 EP - 18 LA - en PB - ACM SN - 978-1-4503-9157-3 ST - Virtual Transcendent Dream UR - http://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517677 KW - Bernhard Riecke KW - Riecke KW - Riecke_2022 KW - alex-kitson KW - bernhard-riecke KW - conferencePaper KW - conferencePapers KW - katerina-stepanova KW - pinyao-liu KW - proj--virtual-transcendent-dream KW - thecla-schiphorst KW - virtual-transcendent-dream ER -