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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · 20h

#wuertual25 just started!
Looking forward to an interesting and inspiring 3 days ahead 🚀

Bertsch Lab - Uni Wuerzburg @bertsch-lab.bsky.social · 20h

Our Würtual Reality Conference is underway!🙌👓🤩
@isabelneumann.bsky.social @sabrinagado.bsky.social

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · 8d

It was fun to join @acm-iva.bsky.social for a workshop this year!

If you are interested in #AI embodied conversational agents and #emotions in #VR check out our paper:

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Affective interactions with AI controlled conversational agents in Virtual Reality | Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

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Antonin Fourcade @toninfrc.bsky.social · 15d

📢Our peer-reviewed article about the AffectTracker is finally out! 😲🕹️📈
Traditional methods for rating emotion often miss the dynamic, moment-to-moment nature of feelings. We designed a tool to capture this continuous affective experience in real-time during dynamic emotional stimulation.

Frontiers | AffectTracker: real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality

Subjective experience is key to understanding affective states, characterized by valence and arousal. Traditional experiments using post-stimulus summary rat...

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Gamer Lab Wuerzburg @gamerlab.bsky.social · 21d

Interested in VR research? @martandreatta.bsky.social and me edited a special issue on "Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience" for Behavioural Brain Research. Read the editorial here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Virtual reality in cognitive and affective neuroscience

Technological advances are making the use of virtual reality (VR) easier and more affordable for many research institutions. Such applications allow f…

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · 26d

Besides replicating our previous study doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
, we also made an interesting observation:

When sending an emoji per button press we found an increase in EMG activity in the corresponding facial muscle

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · 26d

This work originated in a undergrad course on experimental psychology. I'm super proud of my students (and now co-authors) who continued to work on this with me - even when the course was long over

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · 26d

Check out our new paper on communicative intentions in social interactions!

Sending emojis 😀/😐/😠 to a virtual agent modulated mimicry and evaluation of a facial expression received in response!

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

Communicating emotional intentions via emojis influences how people evaluate and mimic facial expressions during social interactions. Sending a smile emoji increased pleasantness and mimicry of happy...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 7

I've said it before, and I will say it again:

It's astonishing how emotionally aversive revisions are, even in the best possible case (reviewers are positive and have very actionable remarks).

Or at least that's how I work; if anybody has some good recommendations for coping, do let me know 😂

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Aug 4

But the personas also influenced participants' behavior Participants also talked more when conversing with teh extraverted vs. introverted agents

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Aug 4

Interestingly, the two personas changed how participants evaluated the virtual agent: The extraverted model was rated as more pleasant.

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Aug 4

The LLM was prompted to be either extraverted and talkative or introverted and less talkative.

Using the NEO-FFI as a manipulation check confirmed these differences. The extraverted model also produced more words

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Aug 4

We used #embodied #conversational #agents in #VirtualReality.

By combining speech2text, speech-synthesis, and lip-synced animations for #Metahumans our participants engaged in real-time conversations with a virtual human

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Aug 4

Our paper on persona effects in face-to-face social interactions between humans and #LLM-controlled virtual agents is now published in Computers in Human Behavior!
🗣️🤖

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#VirtualReality
#SocialInteraction #Human-AI #HCI #LLM

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Michael Wiesing @vrneuroscience.bsky.social · Jul 14

#VRresearch

Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Jul 14

Join me!

I missed the 1st edition but heard so many good things & I'm happy to attend the 2nd edition of

**Wuertual Reality XR-Meeting 2025**

Focus: research and application of #XR in psychology, neuroscience & medicine - from theoretical foundations to clinical applications

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XR-Meeting Würzburg

October 8-10, 2025, Würzburg, Germany #wuertual25

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Felix Klotzsche @flxklotz.bsky.social · Jun 20

If you‘re working with XR in the context of research and happen to be at #PuG2025 – I suggest you drop by at my poster about our EDIA toolbox @ediatoolbox.bsky.social .
Let’s chat, connect, collaborate. Not in the area? Check out the poster below and reach out digitally: edia-toolbox.github.io

Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jun 18

Designing VR experiments just got easier! 🧠🕶️@flxklotz.bsky.social will present EDIA, an open-source tool for building and conducting VR experiments in Unity, featuring a real-world example evaluating eye tracking performance across 5 VR headsets.

Poster B208
📆 Fri, June 20 | 13:00-14:30
📍 2.XXX Z6

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Jun 20

It was really fun! Thanks to all contributors

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Sabrina Gado @sabrinagado.bsky.social · Jun 20

I might be biased, but what an inspiring #VR symposium at #PuG25 🤩
This field still develops so fast 🚀as showcased by the integration of neurophysiology, multi-user settings and clinical application.
Thanks to @martandreatta.bsky.social, @leonkroczek.bsky.social, @michaelgaebler.com and Marius Rubo!

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Jun 18

New preprint!

Here we investigate sustained threat responses elicited by social contexts in #VirtualReality looking at:

🧠🌊 Neural Oscillations
🔊Fear potentiated startle
💦 SCL
🗓️Self-report

All measures show successful fear learning by social contexts ✅

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jun 18

Neural and Affective Dynamics of Social Context Conditioning in Virtual Reality: https://osf.io/sftu3

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jun 18

Neural and Affective Dynamics of Social Context Conditioning in Virtual Reality: https://osf.io/sftu3

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Jun 18

www.pug2025.org/sessions/the...

The Best of Both Worlds? Bridging Behavior and Physiology Using Immersive Virtual Reality | PuG2025

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Leon Kroczek @leonkroczek.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excited about all #PUG25 @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social posts coming in!

Check out our symposium "The Best of Both Worlds? Bridging Behavior and Physiology Using Immersive #VirtualReality"
🗓️Friday 14:30-16:00

@sabrinagado.bsky.social
@michaelgaebler.com
Marius Rubo
@martandreatta.bsky.social

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Kanske Lab @kanskelab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our team is excited to be part of @pug2025.bsky.social [email protected] and @dgps.bsky.social in Würzburg this week! Please reach out and approach us if you want to chat or meet! We look forward to an inspiring conference! ✨

News entry with list of our contributions: tud.link/39nus1

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Maria Meier @mariame.bsky.social · Jun 18

Last pre-PuG rehearsal with critical mock audience 😄

Now fully prepared for our symposium on Friday ⬇️

#PuG2025

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Mind-Body-Emotion Group @mbe-lab.bsky.social · Jun 18

We are excited to be headed to Würzburg for "Psychologie und Gehirn" #PuG2025! Follow along for updates and behind-the-scenes from the MBE group 📣

Curious to know what we'll present? Open the thread below for when and where to find us 👇

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @pug2025.bsky.social

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IGOR DGPs @igor-dgps.bsky.social · Jun 17

IGOR is going to #PuG2025 in Würzburg! 🧠
@pug2025.bsky.social

We’re bringing open science to the spotlight with a series of events throughout the conference. Come meet us, discover our latest work, and get involved!

🧵 Check the thread below for all IGOR events. [1/6]

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