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

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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Virtual Worlds, Real Peace:

Can Virtual Worlds Facilitate Conflict Resolution?

Doron Friedman,Sammy Ofer School of Communications,

The Interdisciplinary Center

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Communication Across Borders, July 08, IDC

Acknowledgements• Sharon Joffe, IDC• Tsahi Hayat, IDC• EU Project – Presenccia• UNLV-IDC Project

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Agenda• Virtual reality and virtual worlds• Scientific research of human

behavior in virtual environments• Some proposals for conflict

resolution using virtual worlds

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Contact HypothesisContact 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.

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contact

mediated

?

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Indirect mediated contact?

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“6-degrees of separation”

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But what is the quality of mediated contacts?

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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?

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Advanced Virtuality Lab• Research themes:

virtual reality, virtual worlds, neuro-physiological interfaces

• http://www.idc.ac.il/communications/avl/

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Highly-Immersive Virtual Reality (10 years ago)

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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)

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Presencia EU Project

(2003-2006)

UCL CS

UCL ION

g.Tec, AustriaTUG Graz Austria

UMH, Spain

Technion, Israel

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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

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Social Presence, Co-Presence

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Is there a sense of presence in online virtual worlds (such

as Second Life)?

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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

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Hall: Proxemics (1960s)1. Intimate space - < 1.5 feet2. Personal space 1.5-4 feet3. Social space 4-12 feet4. Public space > 12 feet

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Proxemics of interacting avatars

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Non-interacting couples

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Spatial response: An automated experiment

• Is there an equivalent for a posture shift in SL?

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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

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Results

“subjects” minutes observed

baseline 49 172 65experiment

28 4:40 12 1.76

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The online-behavior spectrum hypothesis

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Virtual Peace: Some suggestions

• Tele-socialization of physically remote people

• Co-located virtual studio• Inducing empathy

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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

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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

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