Past event
Grand Challenge — Virtual Reality as a Tool to Study Social Interactions
BST (UK)
A methods discussion on using virtual reality to study social interaction — from state-of-the-art equipment and software to setting up your own VR experiment and avoiding common pitfalls.
Hosts
- Rachael Jack
- Tobias Theijll-Madsen
Speaker
- Jonas Nölle
This month’s meeting was a methods discussion on virtual reality as a tool for experimental research. Jonas gave an introduction to VR, showcasing state-of-the-art equipment and software and giving an overview of how it is used across scientific disciplines — from spatial cognition to education and clinical applications.
The talk then focused on how VR can be applied specifically in multimodal social interaction research, drawing on Jonas’s own work and experience, and offered a primer on how to set up your own VR experiment, including best practices and how to avoid common pitfalls.