{"id":76608,"date":"2025-12-08T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=76608"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:51:29","slug":"featured-spotlight-sun-kim-and-zhan-xu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-sun-kim-and-zhan-xu\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Spotlight: Sun Kim and Zhan Xu"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span class=\"TextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\">School of Communication assistant professor <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\">Sun Kim<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\"> and associate professor <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\">Zhan Xu<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\"> presented their experimental study on VR first-person shooter games at the 2025 National Communication Association Convention in Denver. The duo\u2019s research explored how playing VR shooting games can affect someone\u2019s feelings toward real firearms, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\">ultimately finding<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\"> that gameplay had a limited influence on participants&#8217; views. The study was recently published in the <\/span><\/span><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW79797841 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10447318.2025.2594147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW79797841 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\">International Journal of Human\u2013Computer Interaction<\/span><\/span><\/a><span class=\"TextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW79797841 BCX8\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW79797841 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/featured-spotlight-sun-kim-and-zhan-xu\/\">School of Communication assistant professor Sun Kim and associate professor Zhan Xu presented their experimental study on VR first-person shooter games at the 2025 National Communication Association Convention in Denver. The duo\u2019s research explored how playing VR shooting games can affect someone\u2019s feelings toward real firearms, ultimately finding that gameplay had a limited influence on&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}