Joy is a designer, researcher, and developer of emerging technologies in the XR sphere (augmented, virtual, and mixed reality). She coined the term Augmented Social Cognition to describe multimodal virtual environments that transmit, render, and simulate aspects of sensory, motor, perceptual, and cognitive aspects of experience from one person to another. More recently, she has been working on systems to build emotion regulation skills in the context of vicarious emotional suffering.
Joy has worked in research labs across the globe, including:
See Lynda's Research Profiles:
Gerry, L. J., Billinghurst, M., & Broadbent, E. (2022, March). Empathic skills training in virtual reality: a scoping review. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 227-232). IEEE. [Link]Below are videos of various research projects I have designed and developed.