ChildScope VR:
Embodied Perspective-Taking in VR for Child-Inclusive Urban Design

This project uses virtual reality to let urban designers embody child avatars, enabling them to experience the city from a child’s perspective. By navigating virtual neighborhoods at a child’s scale, designers can develop empathy, identify unfriendly details, and inform more inclusive, child-friendly urban planning. Combining serious games with immersive mapping, the project explores embodiment as both a design tool and a means of fostering spatial awareness, aiming to reimagine cities through the embodied lens of childhood.

Type of work  Team work（2 person）

My role

• Research (embodiment theory · child-friendly design)
• Define (VR scenario · empathy-driven tasks)
• Ideation (serious game mechanics · spatial interaction)
• Prototype (virtual child avatar · immersive experience)
• Test (user study · perception mapping)
• Deliver (VR demo · analysis report · presentation)