Winter School online "How can we bring together phenomenology, experimental psychology and psychopathology: virtual reality as a solution?"

The aim of the online school is to bring together 20 students from different disciplines : philosophy, psychiatry, experimental psychology, and those who started to develop an expertise in virtual reality.

Students will be selected on their CV and a motivation letter describing the kind of project they would like to build. The documents can be sent to cThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2021.

Talks will be given by the investigators of the european project VirtualTimes, to illustrate the building of a multidisciplinary project, and to provide knowledge on timing in experimental psychology, psychopathology, and virtual reality. Invited speakers will give keynote talks in the afternoon to provide complementary expertise.

The participating students will be able to:

• virtually present their posters on Monday afternon
• work in groups of 3 to 4 in order to build an interdisciplinary project (they will have access to individual virtual rooms and will be assisted by senior researchers of the Winter School, who will be available throughout the week)
• each group will finally be able to present their interdisciplinary project (oral presentation)

This Winter School is supported by:

Project VirtualTimes (grant number 824128) funded by the EU under Future and Emerging Technologies.

MONDAY March 8th 

• 9:00 to 9:30 : Kai Vogeley : « Manipulation of Time Experience in Virtual Reality and Its Relevance for Psychopathology »
• 9:30 to 10:00 : David Vogel, Kai Vogeley: « Qualitative analysis of disturbed time experiences in psychopathological states. »
• 10:00 to 10:15 : Pause
• 10:15 to 10:45 : Marc Wittmann : « How altered states of time consciousness have a treatment potential in psychiatric disorders »
• 10:45 to 11:15 : Anne Giersch « A disruption of the feeling of time continuity in schizophrenia? What does it mean, how can it be explored in experimental psychology and what virtual reality can bring to patients? »

11:15 to 14:00 : Pause

• 14:00 to 15:45: Posters session by the students, to promote interactions and the formation of students groups.
• 15:45 to 16:00 : Pause

• 16:00 to 16:45 : Aviva Berkovich-Ohana « Neurophenomenology »

TUESDAY March 9th

• 9:00 to 9:30 : Maximilian Landeck & Jean-Luc Lugrin: « Metachron: A framework for time perception research in VR »
• 9:30 to 10:00 : Michiel Spapé, Ville Harjunen, Imtiaj Ahmed, Mikko Kytö, Antti Ruonala, Giulio Jacucci, & Niklas Ravaja: « Virtually hares and turtles: How embodiment and perception-action integration determine our sense of time »
• 10:00 to 10:15 : Pause
• 10:15 to 10:45 : Fabian Unruh & Jean-Luc Lugrin: « Impact of Avatar Embodiment and Environment on Time Perception for Psycho-Pathological Conditions Diagnose and Therapy in Virtual Reality »  
• 10:45 to 11:15 : Tanja Johnston « Virtual Reality in Therapeutics »

11:15 to 14:00 : Pause (private virtual rooms will be available for discussion)

In the afternoon: Finalization of the students groups. Each group will shortly present their preliminary idea. Each group will then be accompanied by 2 PIs.

• 15:45 to 16:00 : Pause

• 16:00 to 16:30 : Iris-Valerie Stracke «Translating research in Industry»

WEDNESDAY March 10th

• 9:00 to 9:30 : Mathis Jording, David Vogel, Maximilian Landeck, Fabian Unruh, Jean-Luc Lugrin, Marc Latoschik, Kai Vogeley: « Variabilty of Time Experience in a Starfield Environment. »
• 9:30 to 10:00 : Maria Marloth, Kai Vogeley: « Ethical Issues of Virtual Reality Applications in Psychiatry. »
• 10:00 to 10:15 : Pause
• 10:15 to 11:00 : Doron Friedman, Rodrigo Pizarro, Keren Or-Berkers, Solène Neyret, Xueni Pan, Mel Slater «  Time Travel in Virtual Reality: Why and How? »

11:00 to 14:00 : Pause (private virtual rooms will be available for discussion)  

In the afternoon: Groups work on their project, supported by the speakers.

• 15:45 to 16:00 : Pause
• 16:00 to 16:45 : Emmanuel Guardiola « Game design »

THURSDAY March 11th

• 9:00 to 9:30 : François Foerster: « Behavioural and Electrophysiological Indicators of Time Processing in Virtual Reality »
• 9:30 to 10:00 : Alvarez F « What can the Psychology of Time Perception tell us about Video Games? A Theoretical Analysis »
• 10:00 to 10:15 : Pause
• 10:15 to 10:45 : Khoshnoud S, Alvarez F, Wittmann M: « The Experience of Time in Virtual Environments: Subjective, Behavioral and Electrophysiological Perspectives. »
• 10:45 to 11:15 : Ville Harjunen, Michiel Spapé, Imtiaj Ahmed, Mikko Kytö, Antti Ruonala, Giulio Jacucci, & Niklas Ravaja: « How does anticipation of emotional events modulate time perception »

12:30 to 14:00 : Pause (private virtual rooms will be available for discussion) 

In the afternoon : Finalization of the projects

FRIDAY MORNING: March 12th

Presentations of the projects

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Organizer: Anne Giersch - University of Strasbourg, UMR_S INSERM 1114 - Cognitive neuropsychology & physiopathology of schizophrenia

March 8-12, 2021

Any interested student (PhD or post-doctoral student) can apply by sending a CV and a motivation letter detailing the project he/she would like to develop with other students during the school. The documents can be sent to cThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Submission Deadline: February 15th, 2021