10am PDT/SLT (1700GMT) Sat May 7th
MICA Popular talk in Voice at the MICA Large Amphitheater,
StellaNova region, the SciLands, Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/StellaNova/206/211/32
Our MICA speaker for this Saturday, Jeremy Bailenson, will show this video... and then open the floor for a discussion.
"Bailenson describes how avatars are changing the social world.
Summarizing a number of psychological experiments conducted at
Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, he demonstrates that avatars change who we are in "the first world". For example, spending time in an avatar can alter people's memory, self esteem, interpersonal skills, exercise habits, and purchasing decisions. Social identity has a different meaning online and small time spent in an avatar can have drastic effects on real behavior in society. Given that children today spend four times as much time embodied in avatars via video games than they do reading books, it is critical to understand the psychological implication of time spent in the virtual world."
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