Workshop "VR Studies : State of The Art"

8:45-9:00  

Coffee/Tea

9:00-9:15

Opening - David Berliner, Université Libre de Bruxelles

9:15-10:15

Zuzanna Rucińska, University of Antwerp

“Being embodied vs feeling embodied in VR - enactivist perspective”

10:15-11:15

Felix Krell, Zeppelin University

“Becoming a Social VR User - On the Processuality of Virtual Embodiment and Emplacement in Enthusiast VRChat Communities”

11:15-12:00  

Ilker Bahar, University of Amsterdam

“Expanding Pleasure and Rethinking Sexuality through the Avatar :

An Ethnographic Examination of Erotic Role Play in Virtual Reality”

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

  Enzo D’Armenio, Université de Lorraine

  “Identification Processes in Virtual Experiences: Between Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology”

14:30-15:30

Maria Erofeeva, Université libre de Bruxelles

“The Phenomenology of Tactile Interactions in Social Virtual Reality”

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea

16:00-17:00

Federico Biggio, Université de Tours

“The empirical immersion. Epistemology of the virtual experience from philosophy to human-computer interaction”

17:00-18:00

Céline Borelle & Elsa Forner, l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

“The Virtual as a New Territory in Mental Healthcare”

18:00-18:30

Open discussion / Concluding remarks

19:00

Dinner and drinks in the city