This seminar will present Julien Laroche’s research at the intersection of virtual reality, embodied interaction, and collective dynamics. His work explores how immersive environments can be used as experimental spaces for studying coordination, perception, and shared experience. Drawing on projects such as Shared Diminished Reality, he will discuss multi-user immersive environments in which participants co-construct experiences through movement and timing, opening new possibilities for participatory research and interaction-based experimentation. The seminar will also reflect on how virtual reality may function as a methodological bridge between laboratory control and real-world social complexity, with potential applications for innovative forms of data collection and collaborative research at LISER.
Other guests and researchers, including Dor Abrahamson, Justin Dimmel and Camille Perchoux, will also give brief introductions to their work using virtual reality for participatory and experimental research.
