08 January, 2019, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will host a research seminar titled: ‘Virtual Reality for the Study of Social Interactions at Work and Training of Interpersonal Skills’, on January 17 (Thursday), 2019, from 11 am onwards, at the MDC Conference Hall. The talk will be delivered by Professor Marianne Schmid Mast, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Speaker Profile: Marianne Schmid Mast is full professor of Organizational Behavior at HEC at the University of Lausanne. After having received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Zurich, she pursued her research at Northeastern University in Boston (USA). She held positions as assistant professor in Social Psychology at the University of Fribourg and she was a full professor at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Neuchatel.
Professor Schmid Mast’s research addresses how individuals in power hierarchies interact, perceive, and communicate (verbally and non-verbally), how first impressions affect interpersonal interactions and evaluations, how people form accurate impressions of others, and how physician communication affects patient outcomes. She uses immersive virtual environment technology to investigate interpersonal behavior and communication as well as computer-based automatic sensing to analyze non-verbal behavior in social interactions.
Professor Schmid Mast studies how people interact with others at work, in settings such as the job interview, when providing performance feedback, or in public speaking situations. Studying social interactions in virtual reality has several distinct advantages over traditional simulation approaches such as role play: standardization of the social interaction partners (the virtual humans), the possibility to subtly manipulate attributes of the social environment and test the effects on outcomes, and the possibility to expose users to unlikely or dangerous situations which would not be possible in reality.
She is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior and on the Editorial Board of the journal Leadership Quarterly. Marianne Schmid Mast acted as president of the Swiss Psychological Society. She is a Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) fellow and an American Psychological Association (APA), Division 8 fellow, honored for her extraordinary, distinctive, and long-standing contributions to the science of personality and social psychology. In 2018, she was named one of the 50 most influential living psychologists.
Topic: Virtual Reality for the Study of Social Interactions at Work and Training of Interpersonal Skills
Speaker: Professor Marianne Schmid Mast, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: January 17 (Thursday), 2019
Time: 11 am onwards
Venue: MDC Conference Hall
08 January, 2019, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will host a research seminar titled: ‘Virtual Reality for the Study of Social Interactions at Work and Training of Interpersonal Skills’, on January 17 (Thursday), 2019, from 11 am onwards, at the MDC Conference Hall. The talk will be delivered by Professor Marianne Schmid Mast, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Speaker Profile: Marianne Schmid Mast is full professor of Organizational Behavior at HEC at the University of Lausanne. After having received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Zurich, she pursued her research at Northeastern University in Boston (USA). She held positions as assistant professor in Social Psychology at the University of Fribourg and she was a full professor at the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Neuchatel.
Professor Schmid Mast’s research addresses how individuals in power hierarchies interact, perceive, and communicate (verbally and non-verbally), how first impressions affect interpersonal interactions and evaluations, how people form accurate impressions of others, and how physician communication affects patient outcomes. She uses immersive virtual environment technology to investigate interpersonal behavior and communication as well as computer-based automatic sensing to analyze non-verbal behavior in social interactions.
Professor Schmid Mast studies how people interact with others at work, in settings such as the job interview, when providing performance feedback, or in public speaking situations. Studying social interactions in virtual reality has several distinct advantages over traditional simulation approaches such as role play: standardization of the social interaction partners (the virtual humans), the possibility to subtly manipulate attributes of the social environment and test the effects on outcomes, and the possibility to expose users to unlikely or dangerous situations which would not be possible in reality.
She is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior and on the Editorial Board of the journal Leadership Quarterly. Marianne Schmid Mast acted as president of the Swiss Psychological Society. She is a Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) fellow and an American Psychological Association (APA), Division 8 fellow, honored for her extraordinary, distinctive, and long-standing contributions to the science of personality and social psychology. In 2018, she was named one of the 50 most influential living psychologists.
Topic: Virtual Reality for the Study of Social Interactions at Work and Training of Interpersonal Skills
Speaker: Professor Marianne Schmid Mast, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Date: January 17 (Thursday), 2019
Time: 11 am onwards
Venue: MDC Conference Hall