{ VHIL in the News }

The Virtual Self, USC Annenberg Program on Online Communities Speaker Series
- Bailenson sums up the current research of the lab in an hour-long talk at the Annenberg School of Communication. VIDEO

Putting VR to Work, PBS Frontline
- Jeremy Bailenson, the director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, details other uses of the virtual, from putting soldiers in Iraqi shoes to helping autistic kids socialize. VIDEO

The Avatar Effect, PBS Frontline
- Frontline visited Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab to find out how all that time online affects our real lives. VIDEO

Stanford's virtual reality experiments transport knowledge to new vistas, San Jose Mercury News
- VHIL is studying ways a digital world intersects with the real one in places as familiar to almost everyone as Facebook and Nintendo's Wii. PDF

Testing virtual reality in the classroom, APA Monitor on Psychology
- In a range of studies, VHIL is showing that manipulating virtual versions of the teacher and classroom environment can help students pay attention and perform better. PDF

Portrait of an Artist as an Avatar, New York Times Magazine
- Scientists at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab have found that avatars, with their artificial beauty and fantastical lifestyles, may represent more than wishful thinking on the part of the real people who create them. PDF

Reality Bytes, AmericanWay Magazine
- Professor Jeremy Bailenson and his graduate students are demonstrating how online lives affect off-line behavior, challenging a long-held assumption that it’s the other way around. PDF

2008

Standing in Someone Else's Shoes, Almost for Real, New York Times
- The evidence that inhabiting another’s perspective can change behavior comes in part from VHIL virtual reality experiments. PDF

Weird Connections – Mimicry, Discovery
- People spend many hours a week interacting with digital others. VHIL uses the virtual world as a tool to understand the implications of this new form of social interaction. VIDEO

Digital Selves, KALW Philosophy Talk
- Jeremy Bailenson is featured on Public Radio's "Philosophy Talk". Intro, MP3

Vote for You!, ABC News ScienCentral
- Can facial similarity determine the result of a presidential election? VHIL face morphing research suggests that voters make decisions about candidates on very superficial features. VIDEO

Virtual Reality Check, NBC The Today Show
- If your avatar looks different from you, perhaps in some ideal way, how does that make you behave? The Today Show profiles VHIL virtual reality exercise research. VIDEO

How Second Life Affects Real Life, Time Magazine
- Bailenson's research suggests that the qualities you acquire online — whether it's confidence or insecurity — can spill over and change your conduct in the real world. PDF

Learning from the Virtual You, NPR All Things Considered
- Andrea Seabrook speaks with Jeremy Bailenson about his research into how people interact psychologically with their virtual-reality representations. MP3

Researchers Say Voters Swayed by Candidates Who Share Their Looks, Stanford Report
- VHIL experiments during presidential and gubernatorial elections indicate that facial similarity is enough to clinch votes. PDF, VIDEO

The Avatar's Influence, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- VHIL research shows that what people do in virtual reality doesn't always stay in virtual reality. Issue also features an opinion piece by Jeremy Bailenson on the benefits of virtual classrooms.

Seeing Is Believing: Maybe virtual reality isn't just a game anymore. Maybe its a way to build a better you., Stanford Magazine
- In Jeremy Bailenson's virtual reality lab, researchers are testing whether avatars can tell us something deeper about human behavior. PDF

Confidence Game, Boston Globe
- Mimicry, according to VHIL research, is a powerful tool to capture our trust. PDF

The (Not So) Real World, Palo Alto Weekly
- Yee and Bailenson found that people will conform to the expectations and stereotypes of the identity of their avatars.. PDF

Our Imaginary, Hotter Selves, Newsweek
- Proteus effect research at VHIL – the effect of appearance on behavior carries over from the virtual world to the real one. PDF

Study Links Voters' Choices to Facial Features, Stanford Daily PDF

You Remind Me of Me, New York Times
- VHIL is testing the effects of different forms of mimicry using avatars. PDF, VIDEO

2007

The Promise of Parallel Universes, Science Magazine
- The Virtual Human Interaction Lab is featured in Science Magazine's special issue on virtual worlds. PDF, VIDEO

Virtual becomes reality at Stanford, San Francisco Chronicle
- How does the human identity change now that we're digital? An overview of VHIL studies and videotaped tour of the lab. PDF, VIDEO

Is This Man Cheating on His Wife?, The Wall Street Journal
- VHIL experiment shows that people socializing in virtual worlds remain sensitive to subtle cues like eye contact. PDF

Rethinking Old Age, Forbes
- VHIL digitally ages people to help them identify with their older selves. PDF

The Patt Morrison show, KPCC Public Radio
- Jeremy Bailenson discusses the psychology of Second Life participants. MP3

When the Virtual You Changes the Real You, Scientific American
- "60 second psych" on Jesse Fox's VHIL exercise experiment. PDF, MP3

How Politicians Will Con Second Life Residents, Telegraph UK
- Potential impacts of VHIL research on face morphing in virtual environments. PDF

The Mind-Bending New World Of Work: Reading Your Mood, Business Week
- Jeremy Bailenson and Clifford Nass investigate the expressions drivers typically have five seconds before they fall asleep. PDF

Study: Virtual Men Are Standoffish Too, ABC News
- VHIL Second Life study indicates that interaction in virtual envirionments are governed by the same social norms as in the physical world. PDF

Viral and Virtual, The Economist, PDF

The Coming Virtual Web, Business Week PDF

Don't Stand So Close to Me, NPR Bryant Park Project
- Nick Yee/VHIL featured in a video about personal space in Second Life. VIDEO

Stanford Lab Makes It a Reality: The Virtual Human Interaction Lab Uses Virtual Reality to Study Human Social Behaviors, Stanford Daily PDF

Virtual Reality Training Seminar
- VRITS (Virtual Reality Intensive Training Seminar) is a two week, intensive training institute on Immersive Virtual Reality. PDF

2006

Great Minds in Development: Manipulating Society through Technology, DevSource
- How does the world change when you have five arms? Jeremy Bailenson is interviewed in the "Great Minds in Development" video series. PDF, VIDEO

Concept of 'Personal Space' Survives in Virtual Reality, Nature
- With thousands of people using Second Life at any one time, Nick Yee and colleagues at VHIL realised it presented a chance to assess whether users interacted in similar ways to people in the real world. PDF

Weekend America, NPR
- Jeremy Bailenson discusses the Proteus effect in radio interview. Do people behave consistent with their digital or virtual self? MP3

News & Issues, KBS1
- Korean Broadcast System broadcast features VHIL research. VIDEO

What's in a Face? Testing the Familiarity-Likeability Connection, Washington Post
- VHIL collaborates with PCL and the Washington Post in face morphing experiment. PDF

Beyond Tomorrow, Discovery Channel
- VHIL face tracking research featured in Australian series. VIDEO

In Certain Circles, Two Is a Crowd, New York Times, PDF

Framing Science: Advances in Theory and Technology are Fueling a New Era in the Science of Persuasion, The Observer, PDF

Future Summit: Virtual Worlds, CNN, VIDEO

For a New Personality, Click Here, New Scientist, PDF

Jaron Lanier on "Homonucular Flexibility", Edge, PDF

Avatar-Based Marketing, Harvard Business Review, PDF