Frontline visited Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab to find out how all that time online affects our real lives.
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Putting VR to Work, PBS Frontline
Jeremy Bailenson details other uses of the virtual, from putting soldiers in Iraqi shoes to helping autistic kids socialize.
Cameron’s Avatar and Stanford: Beyond Sigourney Weaver’s tank top, The Dish
Movie plotline synchs with VHIL research of virtual worlds and human behavior. The Dish
Reality Bytes, AmericanWay Magazine
Professor Jeremy Bailenson and his graduate students are demonstrating how online lives affect off-line behavior, challenging a long-held assumption that it’s the other way around. AmericanWay Magazine » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2009/aa-realitybytes.pdf"...
Stanford’s virtual reality experiments transport knowledge to new vistas, San Jose Mercury News
VHIL is studying ways a digital world intersects with the real one in places as familiar to almost everyone as Facebook and Nintendo's Wii. San Jose Mercury News » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2009/sjm-transport.pdf" style="default" size="normal" target="_blank"...
Testing virtual reality in the classroom, APA Monitor on Psychology
In a range of studies, VHIL is showing that manipulating virtual versions of the teacher and classroom environment can help students pay attention and perform better. APA Monitor on Psychology » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2009/apa-vr-classroom.pdf"...
Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar, New York Times Magazine
VHIL research shows that avatars may represent more than wishful thinking on the part of the real people who inhabit them. New York Times Magazine » Excerpt Scientists at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab have found that avatars, with their artificial beauty...
Standing in Someone Else’s Shoes, Almost for Real, The New York Times
The evidence that inhabiting another’s perspective can change behavior comes in part from VHIL virtual reality experiments. The New York Times » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2008/nyt-standing.pdf" style="default" size="normal" target="_blank" display="inline"...
Mimicry, Weird Connections
People spend many hours a week interacting with digital others. VHIL uses the virtual world as a tool to understand the implications of this new form of social interaction. [video width="640" height="480"...
Study Links Voters’ Choices to Facial Features, Stanford Daily
VHIL research shows that voters are subconsciously attracted to candidates whose facial features resemble their own. Stanford Daily » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2008/stanford-facial-features.pdf" style="default" size="normal" target="_blank" display="inline"...
Researchers Say Voters Swayed by Candidates Who Share Their Looks, Stanford Report
VHIL experiments during presidential and gubernatorial elections indicate that facial similarity is enough to clinch votes. Stanford Report » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2008/sr-voters-swayed.pdf" style="default" size="normal" target="_blank" display="inline"...
Digital Selves, KALW Philosophy Talk
What makes your digital self you? What does your choice of digital selves show about you? And what makes onscreen representation more or less effective as digital selves? Radio interview with Jeremy Bailenson. KALW Philosophy Talk »
Vote for You!, ABC News ScienCentral
Can facial similarity determine the result of a presidential election? VHIL face morphing research suggests that voters make decisions about candidates on very superficial features. [video width="640" height="480"...
Confidence Game, Boston Globe
Mimicry, according to VHIL research, is a powerful tool to capture our trust. Boston Globe »
The (Not So) Real World, Palo Alto Weekly
VHIL researchers found that people will conform to the expectations and stereotypes of the identity of their avatars. Palo Alto Weekly » [button text="View PDF" link="/mm/2008/paw-real-world.pdf" style="default" size="normal" target="_blank" display="inline"...