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Welcome! The Advanced Training Institute for VR in Social Psychology will provide advanced and intensive training in the use of immersive virtual environment technology as a methodological tool for social psychological research. Institute Fellows will receive appropriate methodological, technological, software, and data collection training to enable them to use state-of-the-art immersive virtual technology to perform social psychological experiments. The institute will take place during 10 days of the summer at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Interested persons are encouraged to apply here.

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Staff qualifications:

The senior staff who will provide training directly include Professor James J. Blascovich, co-Director of ReCVEB, and Researcher Andrew C. Beall, Director of Systems Development at ReCVEB.

Blascovich pioneered the use of IVET in experimental social psychology, is Co-PI of ReCVEBs NSF KDI grant, has taught social psychological methods using IVET, and has published research and methodological articles relevant to the topic.

Beall is trained in computer science engineering and has a Ph.D. in cognitive and Perceptual Psychology. Beall is the inventor of key hardware and softwared components employed by the IVE system at ReCVEB. Beall regularly conducts courses on the technical and softwared aspects of IVE systems for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

 Resources:

Resources of ReCVEB (technology description), the Psychology Department, and the University (UCSB) will be utilized. These resources include necessary experimental software development systems, IVE systems and lab space for testing and piloting trainee experimental protocols, the ReCVEB archive of IVE 3-D models and protocols, and the ReCVEB library. The Psychology Departments state-of-the-art multimedia and networked classroom will also be available, and all participants will receive temporary Psychology Department computer accounts and access to the Departments Computing Facility and software. In addition, all participants will have University library privileges.

 Accomodations:

University housing and/or nearby University-discounted hotel rooms will be secured for participants on a double-occupancy basis. Breakfast will be provided with the room. Participants will be provided a $300 stipend for remaining meals. Supersaver roundtrip airfare will be provided from and to each participant's home city. Local transportation will be provided via hotel, University, and private vans. Public transportation is also available for local site seeing. In addition, all participants will have University recreation privileges.

 
                           

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