I am an assistant professor of Multimedia at the School of Communications. My research focuses on extended reality experiences and how they affect human-to-computer and human-to-human interactions: I’ve published widely about the impacts of virtual environments and the use of avatars or XR-manipulated bodies on cognitive and neural processes, social behaviours, as well as the dilemmas around the prevalence of artificial digital agents and personal data collected in XR spaces. Currently, I lead interdisciplinary and cross-sector research projects on accessible and adaptive immersive technologies and user experiences in social virtual reality. As a collaborator, among other things, I’m involved in studies of the cognitive processing of realism in mixed reality, virtual identities, and virtual youth behaviour.
