Moments in Time in Immersive Virtual Environments

Project Information

MoTIVE

Grant agreement ID: 742989

DOI

10.3030/742989

Project closed

EC signature date 27 October 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 31 December 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 199 318,00

EU contribution

€ 2 199 318,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Spain

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (29)

The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality

Author(s): Mel Slater; Domna Banakou
Published in: Current Directions in Psychological Science, Issue 09637214, 2021, ISSN 0963-7214
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/09637214211046954

A Separate Reality: An Update on Place Illusion and Plausibility in Virtual Reality

Author(s): Mel Slater, Domna Banakou, Alejandro Beacco, Jaime Gallego, Francisco Macia-Varela, Ramon Oliva
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 26734192, 2022, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2022.914392

Virtual reality for the rehabilitation and prevention of intimate partner violence – From brain to behavior: A narrative review

Author(s): Tania Johnston,Sofia Seinfeld,Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres,Nicolas Barnes, Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, 2023, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.788608

Evaluating participant responses to a virtual reality experience using reinforcement learning

Author(s): Joan Llobera , Alejandro Beacco , Ramon Oliva , Gizem Senel , Domna Banakou, Mel Slater
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 20545703, 2021, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210537

Impact of virtual embodiment and exercises on functional ability and range of motion in orthopedic rehabilitation

Author(s): Marta Matamala-Gomez; Mel Slater; Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 20452322, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-08917-3

Beyond Speculation About the Ethics of Virtual Reality: The Need for Empirical Results

Author(s): Mel Slater
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 26734192, 2021, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2021.687609

Imperceptible body transformation in virtual reality: Saliency of self representation

Author(s): Gizem Senel; Francisco Macia-Varela; Jaime Gallego; Hatice Pehlivan Jensen; Kasper Hornbæk; Mel Slater
Published in: iScience, Issue 26, 2023, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107938

Bystander Affiliation Influences Intervention Behavior: A Virtual Reality Study

Author(s): Aitor Rovira, Richard Southern, David Swapp, Claire Campbell, Jian J. Zhang, Mark Levine, Mel Slater
Published in: Logo SAGE Open, Issue 21582440, 2021, ISSN 2158-2440
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/21582440211040076

Exploring the Effect of Cooperation in Reducing Implicit Racial Bias and Its Relationship With Dispositional Empathy and Political Attitudes

Author(s): Ivan Patané, Anne Lelgouarch, Domna Banakou, Gregoire Verdelet, Clement Desoche, Eric Koun, Romeo Salemme, Mel Slater, Alessandro Farnè
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 11, 2020, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.510787

The Influence of Embodiment as a Cartoon Character on Public Speaking Anxiety

Author(s): Anna I. Bellido Rivas, Xavi Navarro, Domna Banakou, Ramon Oliva, Veronica Orvalho, Mel Slater
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 26734192, 2021, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2021.695673

Haptic feedback in a virtual crowd scenario improves the emotional response

Author(s): R.K. Venkatesan, Domna Banakou, Mel Slater, M. Manivannan
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 4:1242587, 2023, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2023.1242587

Self-observation of a virtual body-double engaged in social interaction reduces persecutory thoughts

Author(s): Geoffrey Gorisse; Gizem Senel; Domna Banakou; Alejandro Beacco; Ramon Oliva; Daniel Freeman; Mel Slater
Published in: Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021), Issue 20452322, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03373-x

The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Author(s): Mel Slater, Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres, Patrick Haggard, Charlotte Vinkers, Rebecca Gregory-Clarke, Steve Jelley, Zillah Watson, Graham Breen, Raz Schwarz, William Steptoe, Dalila Szostak, Shivashankar Halan, Deborah Fox, Jeremy Silver
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2020.00001

3D objects reconstruction from frontal images: an example with guitars

Author(s): Alejandro Beacco, Jaime Gallego, Mel Slater
Published in: The Visual Computer, Issue 01782789, 2022, ISSN 0178-2789
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00371-022-02669-x

Is Consciousness First in Virtual Reality?

Author(s): Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 16641078, 2022, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.787523

QuickVR: A standard library for virtual embodiment in unity

Author(s): Ramon Oliva, Alejandro Beacco, Xavi Navarro, Mel Slater
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 26734192, 2022, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2022.937191

Automated virtual reality cognitive therapy versus virtual reality mental relaxation therapy for the treatment of persistent persecutory delusions in patients with psychosis (THRIVE): a parallel-group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial in England with mediation analyses

Author(s): Freeman, D; Lister, D; Waite, F; Galal, U; Yu, L; Lambe, S; Bold, E; Beckley, A; Jenner, L; Diamond, R; Kirkham, M; Twivy, E; Causer, C; Carr, L; Saidel, S; Day, R; Beacco, A; Rovira, A; Ivins, A; Nah, R; Slater, M; Clarke, D; Rosebrock, L
Published in: The Lancet Psychiatry, Issue 22, 2023, Page(s) 836-847, ISSN 2215-0366
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(23)00257-2

The Rocketbox Library and the Utility of Freely Available Rigged Avatars

Author(s): Mar Gonzalez-Franco, Eyal Ofek, Ye Pan, Angus Antley, Anthony Steed, Bernhard Spanlang, Antonella Maselli, Domna Banakou, Nuria Pelechano, Sergio Orts-Escolano, Veronica Orvalho, Laura Trutoiu, Markus Wojcik, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, Jeremy Bailenson, Mel Slater, Jaron Lanier
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2020.561558

Virtual body ownership and its consequences for implicit racial bias are dependent on social context

Author(s): Domna Banakou, Alejandro Beacco, Solène Neyret, Marta Blasco-Oliver, Sofia Seinfeld, Mel Slater
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 7/12, 2020, Page(s) 201848, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201848

Encouraging bystander helping behaviour in a violent incident: a virtual reality study using reinforcement learning

Author(s): Aitor Rovira; Mel Slater
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 20452322, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07872-3

Multisensory Integration Dominates Hypnotisability and Expectations in the Rubber Hand Illusion

Author(s): Mel Slater, Henrik Ehrsson
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Issue 16625161, 2022, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.834492

Immersion and the illusion of presence in virtual reality

Author(s): Mel Slater
Published in: British Journal of Psychology, Issue 109/3, 2018, Page(s) 431-433, ISSN 0007-1269
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12305

Robust3D: a robust 3D face reconstruction application

Author(s): Zhihan Lv
Published in: Neural Computing and Applications, Issue 32/13, 2020, Page(s) 8893-8900, ISSN 0941-0643
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00521-019-04380-w

The sentiment of a virtual rock concert

Author(s): Mel Slater, Carlos Cabriera, Gizem Senel, Domna Banakou, Alejandro Beacco, Ramon Oliva, Jaime Gallego
Published in: Virtual Reality, Issue 14349957, 2022, ISSN 1434-9957
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10055-022-00685-9

Being the victim of virtual abuse changes default mode network responses to emotional expressions

Author(s): Sofia Seinfeld; Minye Zhan; Marta Poyo-Solanas; Giulia Barsuola; Maarten Vaessen; Mel Slater; Maria V. Sanchez-Vives; Beatrice de Gelder
Published in: Cortex, 2021, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.11.018

A Virtual Reality Embodiment Technique to Enhance Helping Behavior of Police Toward a Victim of Police Racial Aggression

Author(s): Sameer Kishore, Bernhard Spanlang, Guillermo Iruretagoyena, Shivashankar Halan, Dalila Szostak, Mel Slater
Published in: Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality, Issue 15313263, 2021, Page(s) 5–27, ISSN 1531-3263
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/pres_a_00339

The Making of a Newspaper Interview in Virtual Reality: Realistic Avatars, Philosophy, and Sushi

Author(s): Ramon Oliva, Alejandro Beacco, Jaime Gallego, Mel Slater
Published in: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Issue 43 (6), 2023, Page(s) 117-125, ISSN 0272-1716
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/mcg.2023.3315761

Which Body Would You Like to Have? The Impact of Embodied Perspective on Body Perception and Body Evaluation in Immersive Virtual Reality

Author(s): Solène Neyret, Anna I. Bellido Rivas, Xavi Navarro, Mel Slater
Published in: Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Issue 7, 2020, ISSN 2296-9144
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00031

A comparison of two methods for moving through a virtual environment: walking in place and interactive redirected walking

Author(s): Domna Banakou, Mel Slater
Published in: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Issue 4:1294539, 2023, ISSN 2673-4192
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/frvir.2023.1294539

Conference proceedings (6)

Automatic 3D Character Reconstruction from Frontal and Lateral Monocular 2D RGB Views

Author(s): Jaime Gallego; Mel Slater; Alejandro Beacco
Published in: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Issue 1, 2020
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3973363

Sushi with Einstein: Enhancing Hybrid Live Events with LLM-Based Virtual Humans

Author(s): Alon Shoa,Ramon Oliva, Mel Slater,Doron Friedman
Published in: IVA '23: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Issue September 2023Article No.: 22, 2023, ISBN 978-1-4503-9994-4
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3570945.3607317

Guitar Segmentation in RGB Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Author(s): Ilaria Tono, Jaime Gallego, Zaneta Swiderska-Chadaj, Mel Slater
Published in: 2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Computational Problems of Electrical Engineering (CPEE), 2020, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-7281-9617-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CPEE50798.2020.9238720

Automatic 3D Avatar Generation from a Single RBG Frontal Image

Author(s): Alejandro Beacco; Jaume Gallego; Mel Slater
Published in: IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2022, Page(s) 764-765, ISBN 978-1-6654-8402-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/vrw55335.2022.00233

Multi-Person Re-Identification Based on Face, Pose and Texture Analysis in Unconstrained Videos

Author(s): Jaime Gallego, Mel Slater
Published in: 2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Computational Problems of Electrical Engineering (CPEE), 2020, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-1-7281-9617-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/cpee50798.2020.9238766

Disturbance and Plausibility in a Virtual Rock Concert: A Pilot Study

Author(s): Alejandro Beacco; Ramon Oliva; Carlos Cabreira; Jaime Gallego; Mel Slater
Published in: IEEE Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 2021
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/vr50410.2021.00078

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

Moderating Virtual Reality Simulator Sickness by Changes in Brightness

Author(s): Senel, Gizem; Oliva, Ramon; Sanchez-Vives, Maria V.; Slater, Mel
Published in: pre-print, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10432944

Multisensory experiences of affective touch in virtual reality enhance engagement, body ownership, perceived pleasantness, and arousal modulation

Author(s): Sun, Wenhan; Banakou, Domna; Świdrak, Justyna; Valori, Irene; Slater, Mel; Fairhurst, Merle
Published in: pre-print, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10438718

The Role of Sensorimotor Contingencies and Eye Scanpath Entropy in Presence in Virtual Reality: A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm

Author(s): Küçüktütüncü, Esen; Macia-Varela, Francisco; Llobera, Joan; Slater, Mel
Published in: pre-print, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10432799

Desensitizing Anxiety Through Imperceptible Change: A paradigm for single session exposure for fear of public speaking

Author(s): Banakou, Domna; Johnston, Tania; Beacco Porres, Alejandro; Senel, Gizem; Slater, Mel
Published in: pre-print, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10435475

Book chapters (1)

A plastic virtual self: How virtual reality can be transforming

Author(s): Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness, Issue Chapter 30, 2022, ISBN 9780429321542
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
DOI: 10.4324/9780429321542