Ph.D. Student

Portia Wang

Pronouns

she/her

Portia is a Ph.D. student in the Communication Department. She is interested in building up a theoretical framework towards understanding the role of personalized immersive technologies in supporting social and creative processes. She obtained her B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

Contact

portiaw@stanford.edu

Links

Website

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.
Srirangarajan, T., Wang, P., & Bailenson, J. (2025). Multimodal Analytics in Virtual Reality (In press). Plass, J., Mayer, R. & Makransky, G. (Eds.), The Handbook of Learning in Virtual Reality.
Wang, P., Srirangarajan, T., & Bailenson, J. (2025). Social Processes of Learning in Virtual Reality (In press). Plass, J., Mayer, R. & Makransky, G. (Eds.), The Handbook of Learning in Virtual Reality.
Wang, P., & Bailenson, J. (2025). Virtual Reality as a Research Tool (In press). Reimer, L. van Swol., & A. Florack (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Social Cognition.
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., Queiroz, A., & Bailenson, J. (2024). Socially Late, Virtually Present: The Effects of Transforming Asynchronous Social Interactions in Virtual Reality . Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642244
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
Wang, P., Miller, M., & Bailenson, J. (2023). The Belated Guest: Exploring the Design Space for Transforming Asynchronous Social Interactions in Virtual Reality. IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW).