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Virtual Worlds, Real Peace: Can Virtual Worlds Facilitate Conflict Resolution?

Virtual Worlds, Real Peace: Can Virtual Worlds Facilitate Conflict Resolution?. Doron Friedman, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, The Interdisciplinary Center. Acknowledgements. Sharon Joffe, IDC Tsahi Hayat, IDC EU Project – Presenccia UNLV-IDC Project. Agenda.

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Virtual Worlds, Real Peace: Can Virtual Worlds Facilitate Conflict Resolution?

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  1. Virtual Worlds, Real Peace: Can Virtual Worlds Facilitate Conflict Resolution? Doron Friedman, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, The Interdisciplinary Center

  2. Acknowledgements • Sharon Joffe, IDC • Tsahi Hayat, IDC • EU Project – Presenccia • UNLV-IDC Project Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  3. Agenda • Virtual reality and virtual worlds • Scientific research of human behavior in virtual environments • Some proposals for conflict resolution using virtual worlds Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  4. Contact Hypothesis Contact under certain conditions, such as equal status, cooperation towards a superordinate goal, and institutional support, will create a positive intergroup encounter, which, in turn, will bring about an improvement in intergroup relations. Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  5. mediated contact ? Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  6. Indirect mediated contact? Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  7. “6-degrees of separation” Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  8. But what is the quality of mediated contacts? Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  9. The mediated contact hypothesis? • Under conditions C1,C2,C3,… contact among rival groups can reduce hostility (as measured by M1,M2,…) by a factor of X • Under conditions C1,C2,C3,…mediated contact among rival groups can reduce hostility (as measured by M1,M2,…) by a factor of X’ • What is the relation between X and X’? • How can we make X’=X or even X’>X? Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  10. Advanced Virtuality Lab • Research themes: virtual reality, virtual worlds, neuro-physiological interfaces • http://www.idc.ac.il/communications/avl/

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  21. Highly-Immersive Virtual Reality (10 years ago) Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

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  23. Some Presence Definitions • ‘The sense of “being there”’(Held & Durlach, Sheridan, Zeltzer: premier issue of PRESENCE, 1992) • ‘A perceptual illusion of nonmediation’(Lombard and Ditton, 1997) Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  24. Technion, Israel UCL CS Presencia EU Project(2003-2006) UMH, Spain UCL ION TUG Graz Austria Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC g.Tec, Austria

  25. Presence – our defintion • Successful substitution of real sense data by computer-generated sense data • ‘Successful’ – response is similar to expected response in reality • ‘Response’ – • Low level physiological high level cognitive and emotional • Includes verbal responses about ‘being there’ • Response includes potential for interaction Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  26. Social Presence, Co-Presence Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  27. Is there a sense of presence in online virtual worlds (such as Second Life)?

  28. Our SL Bots Version 1.0 • Implemented in LSL • Wander around (walking) and look for avatars • Collect information about the avatars they meet (e.g., age, proximity, name) • Interact with avatars • Animations (50, however..) • Greeting • Spatial behavior Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  29. Hall: Proxemics (1960s) • Intimate space - < 1.5 feet • Personal space 1.5-4 feet • Social space 4-12 feet • Public space > 12 feet Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

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  32. Proxemics of interacting avatars Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  33. Non-interacting couples Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  34. Spatial response: An automated experiment • Is there an equivalent for a posture shift in SL? Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  35. Method • Bot looked for avatars alone, stood 4 meters from them, greeted them, waited 2 seconds, and moved to a distance of 1.2 meters • Observed whether they move within 10 seconds • Automated experiment • However: needs manual supervision Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  36. Results Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  37. The online-behavior spectrum hypothesis Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  38. Virtual Peace: Some suggestions • Tele-socialization of physically remote people • Co-located virtual studio • Inducing empathy Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  39. Virtual Group Discussion • Experiment: comparing face-to-face discussions (of global warming) with a similar discussion in a virtual world • Preliminary results… • With Tomer Hendl, Amit Lavie-Dinur, and Yuval Karniel Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

  40. Communication Issues • Synchronous vs Async. • Pace is important; timely responses are important for empathy • Video conference vs. VR/VE • Sense of spatial presence • VR can preserve anonymity Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

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