Empathy building ‘in the wild’ - a reflection on an avoidance of the emotional engagement

In 2019 we were asked to prepare a VR stand providing an opportunity to experience applications with social impact during an open event. Every visitor of our stand could choose among several applications (therapeutic, relaxing vs educational vs perspective-taking & empathy-building) and after testing was asked (optionally) to fill in the shortened immersion questionnaire $(\mathrm{N}=44, ...