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Session
Workshop 448: Solutions for Investigating Virtuality and Physicality: Research Approaches Within and Beyond the Pandemic
Time:
Wednesday, 29/Mar/2023:
11:00am - 12:30pm

 Location: Room 14

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Solutions for Investigating Virtuality and Physicality: Research Approaches Within and Beyond the Pandemic

M. Radford1, L. Costello1, K. Montague1, W. Bishop2, V. Kitzie3, T. Wagner4

1Rutgers University, United States of America; 2University of Tennesee, United States of America; 3University of South Carolina, United States of America; 4Univerity of Maryland, United States of America

This panel embraces the conference theme: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity to focus on researching virtual and physical phenomena in virtual environments and contexts, and featuring research with participants from underrepresented groups, including LQBTQIA+ communities. Expert researchers will address their involvement in ongoing projects, as they shifted from physical to virtual methods of data collection (and sometimes shifted back or blended approaches) and data verification during the pandemic and its longtail. Themes addressed include: research benefits and pitfalls presented by the pandemic including accessibility and inclusivity, lessons learned, and projections regarding the “next normal.” They will touch upon practical concerns posed by social distancing, ethical questions heightened in online data collection, and coping with the pandemic’s effect on current and future research. Following the panel, participants will engage in “solution room” groups to share problems encountered within virtual research situations and brainstorm to create solutions, concluding with a summary debrief.