Dylan Yamada‐Rice
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Dylan Yamada-Rice is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of children’s digital literacies and immersive media, with a particular focus on virtual and augmented reality. Her work has fundamentally shaped how we understand young people’s engagement with emerging technologies, moving beyond screen-based interactions to explore embodied, spatial, and sensory experiences. Her landmark paper, “Children and Virtual Reality: Emerging Possibilities and Challenges” (2017, 40+ citations), remains a foundational text in the field, offering one of the earliest critical frameworks for studying how children navigate and learn through VR environments. Yamada-Rice’s contributions extend to co-design methodologies, where she advocates for children as active participants in technology development rather than passive consumers. Her research has informed both academic discourse and industry practice, particularly around safety, creativity, and equity in digital play. She is also known for her work on multimodal storytelling and the role of touch in digital interaction. With a career marked by interdisciplinary collaboration and a commitment to inclusive design, Yamada-Rice continues to influence how researchers, educators, and technologists approach children’s relationships with the virtual world.
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- 1Children and Virtual Reality: Emerging Possibilities and Challenges40 citations · 2017