Frontiers in Digital Humanities

Understanding AWE: Can a Virtual Journey, Inspired by the Overview Effect, Lead to an Increased Sense of Interconnectedness?

Frontiers in Digital Humanities May 22, 2019 Ekaterina R. Stepanova, Denise T. Quesnel, Bernhard E. Riecke 57 citations

Immersive technology, such as virtual reality, provides us with novel opportunities to create and explore affective experiences with a transformative potential mediated through awe. The profound emotion of awe, that is experienced in response to witnessing vastness and creates the need for accommodation that can lead to restructuring of one's worldview and an increased feeling of connectedness....