Bao, C., Application of virtual reality technology in practical teaching in Colleges. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2018) 2: 205-208.
Virual reality is really useful in college classrooms that are trying to teach engineering because students can get onsite and up close and personal with machinery, circuits, and tools
Augmented reality and VR with touch screens is also an idea they are exploring
The costs of building and scaling this kind of technology may not be too bad.
Schuler, Douglas A. “A Corporate Social Performance-Corporate Financial Performance Behavioral Model for Consumers.” The Academy of Management Review, vol. 31, no. 3, 1 July 2006, pp. 540–558.
This article explores the effects that CSR (corporate social responsibility) efforts have on actual consumers - are they more or less willing to buy products if they have philanthropic efforts to support causes, employer minorities, fewer overseas operations, diversity and the environment
Socrates: The Corporate Social Ratings Monitor - ranks companies based on their CSR actions
The first study was an in depth analysis for single company on how much buyers knew about a Company’s CSR practices encourages them to buy more.
“Consumers’ company evaluations is mediated by their perceptions of self–company congruence and moderated by their support of the CSR domain”
Gouran, Dennis S. “A Response to Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber's ‘Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory.’” Argumentation and Advocacy, vol. 48, no. 3, 2012, pp. 186–188., doi:10.1080/00028533.2012.11821767.
Epistemic distortions - epistemic is defined as “relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation.” A distortion in this means people don’t really know what they don’t know
“the function of reasoning is argumentative. It is to devise and evaluate arguments intended to persuade”
Humans aren’t good at looking at the faults in their own arguments, but they can reason with other people
It is easier for people to argue to support their own views than find the truth
This leads to confirmation bias and people having ideas that are easy to argue, even if they are not necessarily better
Sunk cost fallacy - people subscribe to this fallacy because they don’t want to waste “children [and animals] do not seem prone to this error”
This resource is very dense and will take some more extensive reading to fully understand what it is talking about. This is pretty much the perfect resource for all the psychology things I want to talk about though.
https://www.academiapublishing.org/journals/ajer/pdf/2014/Oct/Sousa.pdf - another VR thing for history games
Olkun, Sinan. “Self-Compassion and Internet Addiction.” The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 10, no. 3, July 2011.
These guys did a study on university students about how kindly they felt towards themselves and how addicted they were to the internet.
The results were not surprising:
self-kindness and mindfulness, predicted internet addiction in a negative way.
self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification which can be viewed as maladaptive components of self-compassion were found positively correlated with internet addiction.
Research on self-compassion generally demonstrated that self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification factors related positively to negative variables such as anxiety, depression, self-criticism, neuroticism, rumination, thought suppression, neurotic perfectionism, and submissive behavior.
These results clearly show that the internet is a place for people to isolate themselves and not interact with the real world. What exactly does that mean for companies that tout social media as the epitome of connectivity
This could be used for my example of the mission of large companies that harm people through privacy and addiction issues with their products.