Upcoming

ITIR-EASP27, Immersive Technologies as Methodological and Theoretical Tools for Advancing Intergroup Relations Research.
Helsinki, Finland, 11-12 March 2027.

MindXR2027
Berlin, Germany, 30 June-2 July 2027.

Keynote & Invited Talks

17th World Congress of Biological Psychiatry, Symposia: Social Interaction as Transdiagnostic Challenge in Psychiatry.
Berlin, Germany, 9-12 September 2025.

Expo Osaka 2025 - UAE Pavilion, Peace, Human Security and Dignity Week.
Kansai, Japan, 8 August 2025.

XRGroup Graduate School of Engineering Science, University of Osaka, VR Embodiment for Social Change.
Kansai, Japan, 7 August 2025.

HAPCOR Summer School, Embodied interactions in VR for Promoting Social Inclusion.
TU Dresden, Germany, 4-5 September 2024.

25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, How Artificial Character Embodiment shapes user behaviour in multi-modal interactions Workshop.
Paris, France, 13 October 2023.

CYENS Center of Excellence, The Golden Rule Embodiment Principle.
Limassol, Cyprus, 16 May 2023.

Würtual Reality XR-Meeting, Enhancing Prosocial Behavior in VR.
Würzburg, Germany, 11 April 2023.

The Czech Transformative Tech Community, Deloitte, RedButton Edu and pAIoneers, Embodiment for a Kinder Society.
Czech Republic (Online), 16 June 2022.

Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste Bern, VR in Healthcare and Rehabilitation.
Bern, Switzerland, 5 June 2022.

The London School of Economics and Political Science, Changing Behaviours in Immersive Virtual Reality.
London (Online), UK, 4 May 2022.

Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA), From Embodiment to Changes in Attitudes, Cognition, and Prosocial Behaviour.
Bath (Online), UK, 19 Jan 2022.

VACZINE ART Symposium, How to Overcome the Body.
Düsseldorf (Online), Germany, 4 Jul 2021.

University of Milano-Bicocca Can IVR change empathy?.
Milan (Online), Italy, 19 Mar 2021.

Middlesex University Dubai Research Seminar Series, Immersive virtual reality to reduce racial bias and improve parenting.
Dubai, UAE, Jan 2020.

The Active Self Autumn School I, Immersive Virtual Reality: Technology, Concepts, and Multisensory Integration.
Herrsching, Germany, Oct 2019.

Filmteractive 2019, Being Somebody Else: The Future of Narrative Storytelling.
Lodz, Poland, Oct 2019.

3rd Biennial International Convention of Psychological Science, Integrative Science Symposium: How Changing Our Bodies changes Our Selves, .
Paris, France, Mar 2019.

Latvian Digital Forum 'Datos balstīta nācija', Becoming Someone Else through Virtual Reality: Methods and Research.
Cēsis, Latvia, Oct 2018.

Panel Topics & Short Presentations

IEEE VR VHCIE workshop, MoTIVE - Moments in Time in Immersive Virtual Environments.
Te Pae (Online), NZ, 12 March 2022.

IEEE VR 2021, Opportunities and Challenges in Harnessing VR Technology for Bias Mitigation.
Lisbon, Virtual, 27 Mar - 3 Apr 2021.

SXSW PanelPicker 2021, Challenging Tech’s Path Forward - Avatars for Virtual Reality.
Online, 16-20 Mar 2021.

IEEE AIVR 2020 Special Session, Avatars for AI and VR.
Online, Dec 2020.

Social Bridges e-Conference, Walking in Groups in Immersive Virtual Reality: Temporal coupling during in-group and out-group interactions.
Munich, Germany, Nov 2020.

MoTIVE Symposium, Implicit Racial Bias in Affective Social Contexts In IVR.
Barcelona, Spain, Jan 2020.

Central Institute of Mental health, Virtual Embodiment: Methods & Research.
Mannheim, Germany, Sept 2018.

11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Virtually being Einstein results in an improvement in cognitive ability and a decrease in age bias.
Berlin, Germany, Jul 2018.

University of Plymouth Seminar Days, Virtual Embodiment: Perception, Attitudes, and Behaviour.
Plymouth, UK, Oct 2017.

XXVIII International Congress of the Spanish Society for Comparative Psychology, Psychological and Perceptual Embodiment in IVR – Two paradigms.
Barcelona, Spain, Sept 2016.

Interdisciplinary Summer School on Social Cognition: From interactions to intersubjectivity, The Influence of Body Representation on Behaviour and Cognition – An Extensive Implicit Racial Bias Study.
Aegina, Greece, Jun 2016.

1st IR3C PhD Symposium, The sense of psychological and perceptual embodiment in Immersive Virtual Reality systems.
Barcelona, Spain, Sept 2015.

2nd VERE PhD Symposium, Embodied agency causes illusory self-attribution of speaking and influences subsequent real speaking.
Barcelona, Spain, Oct 2014.

4th International Conference, ACII 2011Computer, Based Video and Virtual Environments in the Study of the Role of Emotions in Moral Behavior.
Memphis, TN, USA, Oct 2011.