Ph.D. Student

Cyan DeVeaux

Cyan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication. Prior to graduate school, she earned her interdepartmental B.A. in Computer Science and Visual & Media Studies from Duke University and worked as a Software Engineer at Google. Her current work investigates educational AR/VR experiences and identity in immersive, social VR environments.

Contact

cyanjd@stanford.edu

Publications

Han, E., Wang, P., DeVeaux, C., Harari, G., & Bailenson, J. (2025). Understanding the role of virtual mobility on how and what people create in virtual reality. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101699.
Bailenson, J., Beams, B., Brown, J., DeVeaux, C., Han, E., Queiroz, A., Ratan, R., Santoso, M., Srirangarajan, T., Tao, Y., & Wang, P. (2024). Seeing the World through Digital Prisms: Psychological Implications of Passthrough Video Usage in Mixed Reality. Technology, Mind, and Behavior (TMB), 5(2). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000129
Wang, P., Miller, M., Han, E., DeVeaux, C., & Bailenson, J. (2024). Understanding virtual design behaviors: A large-scale analysis of the design process in Virtual Reality. Design Studies, 90(101237). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2023.101237
Miller, M., Nair, V., Han, E., DeVeaux, C., Rack, C., Wang, R., Huang, B., Latoschik, M., O’Brien, J., & Bailenson, J. (2024). Effect of Duration and Delay on the Identifiability of VR Motion. 2024 IEEE 25th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 70-75. https://doi.org/10.1109/WoWMoM60985.2024.00023
DeVeaux, C., Han, E., Landay, J., & Bailenson, J. (2023). Exploring the Relationship Between Attribute Discrepancy and Avatar Embodiment in Immersive Social Virtual Reality. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking , 26(11). https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2023.0210
Han, E., Miller, ., DeVeaux, C., Jun, H., Nowak, K., Hancock, J., Ram, N., & Bailenson, J. (2023). People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac031
Akselrad, D., DeVeaux, C., Han, E., Miller, M., & Bailenson, J. (2023). Body Crumple, Sound Intrusion, and Embodiment Violation: Toward a Framework for Miscommunication in VR. CSCW ’23 Companion, October 14–18, 2023, Minneapolis, MN, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606968
Miller, M., DeVeaux, C., Han, E., Ram, N., & Bailenson, J. (2023). A Large-Scale Study of Proxemics and Gaze in Groups. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces.
Queiroz, A., McGivney, E., Liu, S., Anderson, C., Beams, B., DeVeaux, C., Frazier, K., Han, E., Miller, M., Petersen, X., Woolsey, E., Hancock, J., & Bailenson, J. (2023). Collaborative Tasks in Immersive Virtual Reality Increase Learning. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning-CSCL 2023.
DeVeaux, C., Markowitz, D., Han, E., Miller, M., Hancock, J., & Bailenson, J. (2023). Descriptive Linguistic Patterns of Group Conversations in VR. 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW).
Jun, H., Shaik, H., DeVeaux, C., Lewek, M., Fuchs, H., & Bailenson, J. (2022). An Evaluation Study of 2D and 3D Teleconferencing for Remote Physical Therapy. PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality. https://doi.org/10.1162/pres_a_00379
DeVeaux, C., & Bailenson, J. Learning about VR in VR. XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 29(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3558189