The Slow Space Editor : Broadening Access to Restorative XRNate Laffan, Ashley Hom, Andrea Nadine Castillo, Elizabeth Gitelman, Rebecca Zhao, Nikita Shenoy, Kaia Rae Schweig, Katherine Isbisterhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07610
The Slow Space Editor : Broadening Access to Restorative XRThe Slow Space Editor is a 2D tool for creating 3D spaces. It was built as part of a research-through-design project that investigates how Virtual and Mixed Reality (XR) environments might be used for reflection and attention restoration. In this phase, we seek to radically simplify the creation of virtual environments, thereby broadening the potential group of users who could benefit from them. The research described in this paper has three aspects. First, we define the concept of "slow space,…