From Barriers to Blueprints: A Critical Systematic Review of Older Adults and Social VR
Sho Conte, Cosmin Munteanu, Aava Sapkota · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
Conte, Munteanu, and Sapkota conduct a critical systematic review of 85 HCI papers (2017-2024) on older adults and social VR, arguing that the dominant narrative — which frames older adults as deficient users who struggle to adopt VR — is itself a product of flawed research…
social VR · older adults · ageism · epistemic injustice · resistant reading