Xixiang Nie

VR Insights: Unmasking Workspace Gender Bias is collaborated by designers, artists, engineers, and computer scientists within two weeks. I worked as a data analyst and interaction designer, overall responsible for Python graph analysis, creative direction, and VR game interaction.

 

As Carmen Reinhart, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group said, "Women cannot achieve equality in the workplace if they are on an unequal footing at home."

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Preliminary data shows that women are at a disadvantage in the workplace, and gender inequality is increasing. This project aims to interactively demonstrate the inequality between men's and women's positions in a company through VR scenarios as a way to call on companies to pay more attention to and improve gender equality in the workplace and to explore more possibilities for the future of human resource management.

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We used Unity to build a VR Application that allows the user to take on the role of a company manager sitting in an office space. The physics engine simulates the user's interactions in the real space within the software. The user can view the gender distribution across the company or use different cards to see the gender ratio within other departments and workplace gender discrimination. We also provide research to help users think about the social factors behind this.