Embodiment in Virtual Reality: Effects on Public Speaking and Implicit Gender Bias
This project investigates the potential of virtual reality to enhance public speaking skills and reduce implicit gender bias by embodying virtual humans. By leveraging the "Proteus effect," which changes behavior based on virtual identities, we explore whether embodying successful female role models improves public speaking performance and whether embodying a virtual human of another gender affects nonverbal behavior and implicit gender bias. We aim to study the impact on women’s public speaking performance when embodying a successful female role model, women’s nonverbal behavior when embodying a male virtual human, and examine whether men’s implicit gender bias shifts after embodying a female virtual human
Research Group
Anely Bekbergenova
Partners & Third Party Funding
