Dreaming a Better Society: Harnessing XR, AI and the human factor in analyzing user behavior, design aspects and experience effects in intergroup interaction in social virtual reality.

The presentation will explore research in intergroup contact in SVR environment and the designs, manual and automatic methods used to examine users' behaviors, ingroup and outgroup bias, and the effects of the interaction on attitudes towards diversity and towards the outgroup following multi-user moderated experiences bringing together users from diverse, often conflicted, social groups.

The presentation requires a computer, preferably internet connection, projector, audio device.

About the Speaker:

Nili Steinfeld is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communications, Ariel University. She studies political and civic uses of the internet, and especially the pro-social potential of digital communications, with emphasis on emerging, immersive technologies. She uses diverse research methodologies that include online experiments, VR experiences and 3D content production, the use of eye tracking devices and big data analysis.