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Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn @sunjooahn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We knew that community leaders (decision-makers, opinion leaders, includes industry professionals, engineers, civil servants, educators) were key drivers of VR adoption. Some themes from community leader interviews on opportunities and challenges of VR as a tool for extreme weather preparedness:

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Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn @sunjooahn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

✅ Strong emotional responses (e.g., fear, excitement) elicited in VR is useful to capture attention ✅ VR content should represent wide variances in specific communities and lived experiences to increase utility & relevance ✅ VR may be useful because it is novel... but novelty is a double-edged sword

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Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn @sunjooahn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

✅ Community leaders believe VR can be widely distributed by integrating VR into existing extreme weather preparedness programs ✅ Financial burden of VR still on community leaders' minds More details provided in the paper: tinyurl.com/3xm4f2ns

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Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool

Educating coastal residents on the dangers of storm surge is one of the core missions of coastal community leaders. Virtual reality (VR) can help communicate risks by simulating storm surge events ...

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