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2006

1. Toward a Science of Consciousness [4th-8th April 2006, Tucson Convention Center, Tucson, Arizona]

  • Maria V. Sanchez-Vives. Plenary Conference: The use of Virtual Reality in the Study of Consciousness.
  • Mel Slater & Maria V. Sanchez-Vives. Invited conference. Understanding Perception and Consciousness through Virtual Reality.

2. The Cajal Centenary Conference on the Cerebral Cortex. [25th-29th April 2006, Barcelona, Spain]

  • Mel Slater & Maria V. Sanchez-Vives. Invited conference. Understanding Perception and Consciousness through Virtual Reality.
  • M Slater, D. Pérez-Marcos and MV Sanchez-Vives. The “virtual arm” illusion: internalization of a virtual body by multisensory correlations.

3. Peach network [22nd June 2006, Barcelona, Spain]

  • Presentation about "PRESENCCIA" given by Prof. Mel Slater at the first meeting of the PEACH network on 22nd June, 2006, at Starlabs in Barcelona.

4. SIACG 2006 [5th July 2006, Santiago de Compostela, Spain]

5. 5th Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS forum) [5th-12th July 2006, Viena, Austria]

  • Poster presented by M. V. Sanchez-Vives & Mel Slater at the 5th Forum of European Neuroscience, poster A232.21.
  • M. V. Sanchez-Vives & Mel Slater. The "virtual arm" illusion: Displacement of sensation of ownersip to a virtual arm in virtual reality.

6. BMT 2006: Joint Conference of the German Society, Austrian and Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering [6th-9th September 2006, Zürich, Switzerland]

  • This conference is the biggest conference in the field of biomedical engineering in the German speaking countries. The latest outcomes of the Brain-Computer Interface research, which was developed out of the Presenccia project and which is used for the experiments in Graz and the first results of the newly developed optical BCI were presented at the Conference.

    • Poster "Setup of the NIRS based Graz-BCI" by Bauernfeind G., Leeb R., Wriessnegger S., Scharfetter H., Pfurtscheller G.
    • Talk "Scouting through a virtual apartment" by Leeb R., Lee F., Bischof H., Pfurtscheller G.

7. 3rd International Brain-Computer Interface Workshop and Training Course [21st-23rd September 2006, Graz, Austria]

  • This workshop is the most important workshop in the field of Brain-Computer Interface research in Europe. All leading researchers from more than 30 groups worldwide attended. The program was spread over 3 days dealing with various aspects and latest outcomes of BCI research.

8. VR and Consciousness Symposium in Applied Neuroscience Inaugural Conference [September 2006, Swansea, UK]

  • D. Friedman, Using Brain-Computer-Interface in a Highly-Immersive Virtual Reality.
  • Mel Slater, Presence in Virtual Reality.
  • M. V. Sanchez Vives, Understanding Perception and Consciousness Through Virtual Reality.

9. ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) [1st-3rd November 2006, Limassol, Cyprus]

  • D. Friedman, Virtual Reality and the Brain, tutorial in VRST.

10. IST 2006 - Strategies for Leadership [21st-24rd November 2006, Helsinki, Finland]

This conference will be held under the auspices of Europe's Information Society Technologies (IST). The IST 2006 conference is the main networking event and showcase covering research and development in information society technologies. IST 2006 is being organised by the European Commission in cooperation with the Finnish Presidency of the European Union.

11. Polytrauma Conference 2006 [3rd - 5th December 2006, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US]

Mel Slater will deliver an invited talk on "Speculations on the Use of Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Polytrauma Patients" at the "Polytrauma Conference 2006". Several PRESENCCIA project members will contribute information for this talk including Prof. Gert Pfurtscheller and Mr Robert Leeb of TU Graz, Prof. Paul Verschure of UPF, Dr M. V. Sanchez-Vives of UMH, and Dr Henrik Ehrsson of Karolinska Institute.

2007

12. The Whitehead Lectures on Cognition, Computation & Creativity [31th January 2007, Goldsmiths College, University of London]

"Is action based on perception rather than knowledge? The evidence from presence in virtual environments"

Mel Slater
Centre de Realitat Virtual (CRV), Edificio U, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.

Abstract: : This talk will present a number of studies of the responses of people to situations and events in immersive virtual environments. The evidence from these studies suggests that people tend to respond to these events as if they are real, in spite of knowing for sure that they are not. Results from studies concerned with the use of virtual environments in psychotherapy will be presented, and also a virtual simulation of the Stanley Milgram obedience experiment. Immersive virtual environments may therefore provide a research tool for social and psychological scientists and also for policy makers, in order to investigate problems under laboratory style conditions that would otherwise not be possible due to practical or ethical constraints.

13. GRAPP 2007 [Keynote Lecture 2]

Mel Slater:"The Influence of Rendering Styles on Participant Responses in Immersive Virtual Environments"

Abstract:
What influence does rendering style have on the responses of participants in immersive virtual environments? In this talk we will consider the extent of presence of participants in an immersive virtual environment when they experience rendered with real-time ray tracing compared with standard OpenGL style rendering. An experiment will be described in detail, and the results presented. The question of the impact of visual realism on presence is an open one to date, and this experiment provides further evidence in this debate.

14. Wunder Gehirn - durch Gedanken einen Rollstuhl bewegen. [14th March 2007, Talk by Prof. G. Pfurtscheller at the Gesellschaft für Forum und Technik in Rottenmann, Austria]

15. The Graz-BCI - Basic principle and applications of EEG based and NIRS based Brain-Computer Communication. [19th March 2007, Talk by Dr. Robert Leeb at the Neurofisiopatologia Clinica, Rome, Italy]

16. UCL Science Society, talk by Prof. Mel Slater: "The Use of Virtual Reality in Research into Human Behaviour Under Conditions of Stress: A Virtual Reality Milgram Obedience Experiment." [22nd March 2007, UCL, UK]

17. ETH Zentrum, SMS Laboratory - Seminar talk by Prof. Mel Slater: "Is action based on perception rather than knowledge? The evidence from presence in virtual environments" [28th March 2007, Zurich, Switzerland]

This talk will present a number of studies of the responses of people to situations and events in immersive virtual environments. The evidence from these studies suggests that people tend to respond to these events as if they are real, in spite of knowing for sure that they are not. Results from studies concerned with the use of virtual environments in psychotherapy will be presented, and also a virtual simulation of the Stanley Milgram obedience experiment. Immersive virtual environments may therefore provide a research tool for social and psychological scientists and also for policy makers, in order to investigate problems under laboratory style conditions that would otherwise not be possible due to practical or ethical constraints (Invitation letter).

18. Mentally induced neural oscillations used to control wheelchair movement in a virtual environment. [25th March 2007, Talk by Prof. G. Pfurtscheller at the Cost Meeting in Florence, Italy]

19. Edinburgh International Science Festival 2007 - Talk by Prof. Mel Slater, Body and Mind, Social Interaction within Virtual Environments [7th April 2007, Edinburgh, UK]

20. EEG beta oscillations can be used to control wheelchair movement in a virtual street. [16th April 2007, Talk by Prof. G. Pfurtscheller at University of Ulster in Londonderry, United Kingdom]

21. Diseño, simulación y realidad virtual en la producción industrial. Mel Slater: La presencia en la RV y su importancia en la formación industrial [18th April, Barcelona, Spain]

22. PRESENCCIA PhD Symposium 2007 [14th - 15th May, Barcelona, Spain]

23. Dynamics of brain oscillations and direkt brain-computer communication. [17th May 2007, Talk by Prof. G. Pfurtscheller at the Scientific meeting: "Applied Neuroscience for health brain function" in Nijmegen, Netherlands]

24. Controlling a wheelchair from thought in immersive virtual environment. [21th May 2007, Talk by Prof. G. Pfurtscheller at the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands]

25. Meeting of Presence Project IPs [30th May, Pisa, Italy]

26. XVR workshop [31st May, Pisa, Italy]

27. PRESENCCIA meeting [1st June, Pisa, Italy]

28. Rollstuhlsteuerung mit Gedanken - Simulation in einer virtuellen Umgebung. [11th June 2007, Talk by Prof. G. Pfurtscheller at the University of Bremen, Germany]

29. Universidad de Málaga (Summer school) [4th July, Málaga, Spain]

  • Sanchez-Vives M.V. & Slater M. " La realidad virtual en el estudio del cerebro y la consciencia"

30. Peach summer school
  • FP6 Coordination Action on Presence. PRESENCCIA speakers: Doron Friedman, Christoph Guger, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives, Mel Slater, Paul Verschure [3rd-6th July, 2007 Santorini, Greece]
     
  • "Towards Human Machine Confluence [4th-6th July, 2007 Santorini, Greece]

31. 2° Congreso Iberico de Percepcion (CIP-MADRID) [4th - 6th July, Madrid, Spain]

  • Vergara R, Arnold MM, Perez-Marcos D & Sanchez-Vives MV. Ionic currents implicated in the adaptation to repetive sounds in auditory cortex (A1)
  • Perez-Marcos D, Slater M & Sanchez-Vives MV. Invoking the Rubber Hand Ilusion in Virtual Environments

32. PRESENCCIA Course - Body consciousness: brain mechanisms of representation of the self and others [9-13th July, 2007 Soria, Spain]

33. The 4th International INTUITION Conference “Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments”. Keynote Speaker: Prof. Mel Slater, "Interaction with Self and Others in Immersive Virtual Environments" [4th - 5th October, Athens, Greece, 2007]

34. PRESENCE 2007, The 10th Annual International Workshop on Presence [October 25 - 27, Barcelona, Spain].

35. SACS 07: Graz University of Technology Symposium and Celebration "30 Years COMPUTER SCIENCE" [November 2007, Graz University of Technology, Austria]

36. RAVE-08. First of an Annual Workshop Series: This is the first of a workshop series focusing on the whys and hows of realistic action in virtual environments. [Feb 27th 2008, Barcelona]

2008

37. Virtual Environments & Brain Computer Interfaces

14 - 15 May 2008
Scuola Superiore S. Anna – Aula Magna
Piazza Martiri della Libertà, Pisa
ITALY

38. PRESENCE and the Science of Virtual Reality Meeting at the Technion in Haifa, Israel November 3, 4 and 5, 2008

39. The Power of Virtual Reality for Rehearsal and Training. Keynote speech by Mel Slater at the Peach Industry Event, Turin, Italy, November 12 and 13, 2008

40. ICT 2008 , 25-27 Nov 2008, Lyon, France.

2009

41. Understanding Violence , Recent advances in biology, sociology and modeling. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 11-13 February 2009.

42. Programa Joves i Ciència: "II trovada cientifica del progama Joves i Ciencia de de l'obra social de Caixa Catalunya"
Sala Gaudí de La Pedrera, Barcelona
Saturday 28 February 2009 at 11:30h
Title: The Transforming Power of Virtual Reality by Prof. Mel Slater

43. RAVE-09 Workshop, Barcelona, March 4th 2009

44. The Educational Resources Exhibition .

45. Computation of Emotions in Man and Machines. The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG, 20-21 April 2009.
Discussion Meeting by Professor Peter Robinson and Dr Rana el Kaliouby.
Invited speaker: Professor Mel Slater.

46. 2nd PRESENCCIA PhD Symposium – 26-27th May, keynote speakers, Salvatore Aglioti, Jan Peters

47. XVR workshop (Pisa, 28th May 2009)

48. PRESENCCIA Plenary meeting (Pisa, 28th May 2009)

49. Conference of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Invited talk by Professor Mel Slater, "Virtual Reality as a Tool to Study Obedience". , Portland Maine, US, 16-17th October, 2009.

50. ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication,
SPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White
Monday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30, HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding, University of Cambridge

51. Place Illusion and Plausibility in Immersive Virtual Environments: Applications to Body Ownership Illusions and the Responses of People to Violent Incidents.
SPEAKERS: Mel Slater
31st January, 2010, The Technion, Haifa, Israel.

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