Evaluating Nobody’s Listening on the Ground: Adapting EMOTIVE in Iraq by ROZHEN MOHAMMED-AMIN

Rozhen K. Mohammed-Amin is an Associate Professor at the Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies & Scientific Research (KISSR) and Co-founder of the Cultural Heritage Organization (CHO) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Her work focuses on digital heritage and immersive storytelling for cultural memory and human rights. This talk (Evaluating Nobody’s Listening on the Ground: Adapting EMOTIVE for Difficult Heritage VR in Iraq) reflects on the evaluation of Nobody’s Listening, an immersive VR experience on the Yazidi genocide. It discusses how the EMOTIVE evaluation framework was adapted for fieldwork in Iraq, highlighting methodological, ethical, and practical lessons for assessing emotional engagement, historical empathy, and human rights awareness in difficult heritage VR.