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Is action based on perception rather than knowledge? The evidence from presence in virtual environments| old_uid | 2162 |
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| title | Is action based on perception rather than knowledge? The evidence from presence in virtual environments |
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| start_date | 2007/01/31 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | This talk will present a number of studies of the responses of people to situations and events in immersive virtual environments. The evidence from these studies suggests that people tend to respond to these events as if they are real, in spite of knowing for sure that they are not. Results from studies concerned with the use of virtual environments in psychotherapy will be presented, and also a virtual simulation of the Stanley Milgram obedience experiment. Immersive virtual environments may therefore provide a research tool for social and psychological scientists and also for policy makers, in order to investigate problems under laboratory style conditions that would otherwise not be possible due to practical or ethical constraints. |
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| responsibles | Bishop |
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