Misty Forest VR: Turning Real ADHD Attention Patterns into Shared Momentum for Youth Collaboration
arXiv:2602.20350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) remains highly stigmatized in many cultural contexts, particularly in China, where ADHD-related behaviors are often moralized rather than understood as neurodevelopmental differences. As a result, challenges of self-perception, social misunderstanding, and collaboration between ADHD and non-ADHD individuals remain largely unaddressed. We present Misty Forest, a VR-based collaborative game that explores ADHD through asymmetric co-play. The system translates empirically grounded ADHD behavioral patterns — such as fluctuating attention and […]