In order to capitalise on the many potential benefits of XR, it will be important to ensure that the technologies and experiences of the future are designed to work hand-in-hand with human cognition. XR technologies can deliver rich and compelling multisensory experiences, but they also risk overloading users with ever-increasing amounts of information and complicated interaction. I will outline some relevant recent findings from the StoryFutures audience team with the aim of prompting a discussion of how we can make the most of XR functionality without overloading people.

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Polly Dalton is a Professor in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is also Director of the Attention Lab and Head of Audience Futures for the CoSTAR National Lab. Polly’s research addresses the psychological mechanisms of human attention, awareness and experience in multisensory contexts, with a wide range of theoretical and applied impacts in areas including immersive storytelling, road transport and aviation.