socialBRIDGES - Presence Program
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| MONDAY, 22.09.2025 | ||||
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| SESSION | Experts | Title | ||
| 09:45 | Welcome and Opening | |||
| 10:00 | Keynote | Olaf Blanke | Neuroscience Foundations | |
| 11:00 | Tom Froese | Haptic Feedback as Mediated Social Touch | ||
| 11:30 | Anna Ciaunica | Joint Agency (humans vs. robots) | ||
| 12:00 |
Nicolás Hinrichs |
Geometry for Sense-making | ||
| 12:30 | LUNCH | |||
| 13:30 | Camille Salaberry | Robotic Avatars and Asymmetry | ||
| 14:00 | Bree McEwan | Affording Presence | ||
| 14:30 | Katja Krug | |||
| 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 15:30 | Interactive Session | VR Demo | ||
| 16:00 | Keynote | Mel Slater | VR and Presence Design | |
| 17:00 | CLOSING OF DAY 1 | |||
| TUESDAY, 23.09.2025 | |||||
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| SESSION | Experts | Title | |||
| 09:45 | Keynote | Kristine Nowak | Presence in VR Classrooms | ||
| 10:45 | Sun Joo Grace Ahn | Persuasive Communication | |||
| 11:15 | Andrea Stevenson Won | Co-embodiment in Hybrid Meetings | |||
| 11:45 |
Sara Falcone |
Embodiment in Teleoperation | |||
| 12:15 | Interactive session | Puppeteer demo | |||
| 13:00 | LUNCH | ||||
| 14:00 | Rami El Ali | Unified Account of SOP | |||
| 14:30 | Laura Oppi | Mapping Perceptual Presence | |||
| 15:00 | Robin Zebrowski | Presence-as-absence | |||
| 15:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||||
| 16:00 | Beliz Güçbilmez | The Present Tense | |||
| 16:30 | Guido Orgs | Liveness | |||
| 17:00 | Ceren Özcan | Theatre | |||
| 17:30 | Interactive session | Dance/Theatre study | |||
| 17:00 | CLOSING REMARKS | ||||
* Time Zone: Central European Standard Time (CET)
SOAP BOX
During the soap box sessions, senior researchers will give insight into their experiences and challenges in making a research career in the field of social neuroscience.
FISH BOWL
Fish bowl sessions will be dedicated to young researchers who will give short presentations followed by feedback from senior researchers and bidirectional Q&A.