Posts in Virtual Reality/360 video
Innovating Virtual Reality Experiences For Journalism: The Design Thinking Approach

Conference paper by Heli Väätäjä, Otto Kauhanen, Turo Uskali, Esa Sirkkunen, Chelsea Kelling, Markku Turunen, Vesa Lindqvist. It presents a history of VR and explores VR storytelling for journalism.

Väätäjä, Heli., Otto Kauhanen, Turo Uskali, Esa Sirkkunen, Chelsea Kelling, Markku Turunen and Vesa Lindqvist. 2017. “Innovating Virtual Reality Experiences For Journalism”. The Design Thinking Approach

Read More
Assisting Immersive Virtual Reality Development With User Experience Design Approach

Conference paper by Otto Kauhanen, Heli Väätäjä, Markku Turunen, Tuuli Keskinen, Esa Sirkkunen, Turo Uskali, Vesa Lindqvist, Chelsea Kelling, Jussi Karhu. The paper explores how to a biography as a VR experience.

Kauhanen, Otto., Heli Väätäjä, Markku Turunen, Tuuli Keskinen, Esa Sirkkunen, Turo Uskali, Vesa Lindqvist, Chelsea Kelling and Jussi Karhu. 2017. “Assisting immersive virtual reality development with user experience design approach” Academic Mindtrek: 127-136. DOI: 10.1145/3131085.3131126.

Read More
Journalism in Virtual Reality: Opportunities and Future Research Challenges

Conference paper by Esa Sirkkunen, Heli Väätäjä, Turo Uskali, Parisa Pour Rezai. It looks at what kinds f real-life journalistic VR experiments there have been made so far. Then it analyzes the research literature on journalistic VR.

Sirkkunen, Esa., Hela Väätäjä, Turo Uskali, and Parisa Pour Rezaei. 2016. “Journalism in virtual reality : opportunities and future research challenges”. Academic MindTrek'16 : Proceedings of the 20th International Academic MindTrek Conference : 297-303. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). DOI: 10.1145/2994310.2994353

Read More