***Permanent post in my Dept!*** I’d love to have a new colleague working on body, multi sensory, development, motor, or VR. Please share. tinyurl.com/mrytewky

On the 4th of July I will be a climate voter in Dulwich and West Norwood! Helen Hayes 💙🌹 @greenpeaceUK have analysed how well each part is doing on the climate: greenpeace.org.uk/take-action/pr… Sign up to be a climate voter: greenpeace.org.uk/take-action/pr…

Today I'll be speaking at British Congress for the Interdisciplinary Scientific Research & Practices conference, "Global Health Challenges in the Ageing Society". As part of the mental health session, I’ll be talking about VR as a Digital Therapy for the Elderly. See you there!

What the history of AI can teach us is that all predictions about AI have always been wrong.

Ever wondered why is clicking a button in VR so difficult? We decompose in 2 realms to solve: the near & the far. Direct hand works for the near. And I am now sold that nothing beats gaze + pinch (G+P) selection on the far. Seamless, precise, and natural. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10568…

Nearly FOUR MILLION VIEWS on our website so far Stopthetories.vote Just type in your postcode We can make history TOGETHER Aiming for Tories into 3rd place just as the Survation indicates can happen 👍🏼👍🏼 #TacticalVoting

With one day to go before the UK election, the parties and media are not paying attention to the biggest issue facing us all: the climate crisis. See Greenpeace UK for an assessment of the climate impact of the main party's manifestos.

🗳️ It's polling day 🗳️ Today, the people of Bristol Central can make history You live in one of the only seats in the country where you can elect a Green MP today. Your vote here REALLY matters We need voices that can challenge the new Labour government to do better

I’m voting Green today, for a brighter, greener future: real hope for real change! 🗳️💚 The Green Party

14 years of Tory rule has torn the social contract to its last fibre. For the next 7 hours, #BristolCentral has an historic opportunity to ensure that contract is rewritten with climate action & fairness at its core. Let’s not squander the moment. Vote Carla Denyer

This is what the CLIMATE VOTE looks like: 💚4 seats for Greens! ❌18 out of 23 Tory net zero sceptics lost their seats 👏36 of 51 Blue Wall seats flipped from Tory to Lib Dem & Labour, with climate & nature as key issues Voters are CRYING OUT for a green & prosperous future.

Congratulations to Helen Hayes 💙🌹 for her victory in Dulwich and W Norwood. This is very well deserved, you have been an excellent MP and will be excellent in govt. Like other climate voter, I urge you to bring your strong commitment to the environment into the new government.

Desensitising anxiety through imperceptible change - a new #VR paradigm for single session #exposure #therapy. Example: fear of public speaking. Domna Banakou Tania Johnston Alejandro Beacco Gizem Senel. European Research Council (ERC) Institut de Neurociències de la UB youtu.be/QFvJMPmdsDE formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e52212

How VR characters are programmed matters for mental health applications. A randomised controlled test for paranoia. marvellous work by Shu Oxford Psychiatry Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre nature.com/articles/s4159…

durham.taleo.net/careersection/… Now hiring, Psychology PDRA, start 1.1.25, to work on #embodiment, #development, #VR, with me, Prof Sylvia Pan 潘雪妮 marco gillies . Please get in touch with q's and/or retweet!

Presented my paper, 'Delivering Bad News: VR Embodiment of Self Evaluation in Medical Communication Training' at the Serious Games and Applications for Health Conference in Funchal, Portugal. Congrats Asan and JiaqiYin殷佳淇 for their talk and poster and great keynote from Prof Sylvia Pan 潘雪妮

Come and join our creative and interdisciplinary Computing department at Goldsmiths, University of London. We are advertising two lectureships. jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/-lectu…

New clinical psychologist position in the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis (O-CAP) research group. Focus on evaluating new psychological treatments that have potential to lead to large change for patients. Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology jobs.ac.uk/job/DJL969/cli…

The challenge in building intelligent systems is that a significant percentage of human knowledge is not captured in language; it is learned through interaction with the physical world: "... The crux of the problem is that understanding language requires understanding the world,

It's out! 🎈 🎉 ▶️ Ethical Games the first special issue of ACM Games: Research and Practice: dl.acm.org/toc/games/2024… 13 excellent articles ranging from digital children's rights to toxicity, games education, microtransactions, responsible AI, and a roundtable on advancing ethics in the industry