Mel Slater
Mel Slater
I am part-time Professor of Virtual Environments.
I am an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain, where I lead the Event Lab.
My major research interest is the question of what makes virtual reality work: how is it possible to build virtual environments such that people respond realistically to events within them? What scientific explanations are there of this phenomenon? I have a particular interest in virtual reality for the creation of social scenarios, and also in using the power of virtual reality for changing the self, research that is focussed on the interface between computer science and neuroscience.
Department of Computer Science
Malet Place Engineering Building
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
Tel: +44(0)20 7679 3709
Fax: +44(0)20 7387 1397
Projects
• The Compassion Project, MRC
•Virtual Reality in Understanding and treating persecutory delusions: an interventionist-causal model approach,
MRC led by Dr Daniel Freeman
Being there together online book
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