Ethics of Presence: Designing for Wellbeing

When technology occupies our senses, design choices affect more than usability—they affect wellbeing. Ethics of Presence: Designing for Wellbeing examines the responsibilities that come with creating immersive experiences that influence perception, emotion, and behavior.
This book takes an ethical and human-centered stance. It explores how XR systems shape attention, identity, agency, and psychological comfort, often in subtle ways. Rather than reacting to harm after deployment, the book argues for designing wellbeing into immersive experiences from the start.
Readers are invited to consider consent, manipulation, addiction, and emotional safety in environments where presence feels real. The book reframes ethics not as restriction, but as design quality—something that protects users while strengthening trust and longevity.
You will explore:
• How immersive presence amplifies design impact
• Why wellbeing is a design responsibility
• How XR affects attention, emotion, and identity
• Where ethical design prevents long-term harm
• How trust sustains immersive ecosystems
This book is for designers, researchers, policymakers, and builders who care about the human cost of immersion. If presence is powerful, this book asks how to use that power responsibly.