Lead Mentor: Valerie Taylor
Additional Mentors: Hector Munoz-Avila, Stephanie Watts, Bill Whitney
This project will examine how people engage in interracial interractions-what makes them go well and the factors that make them fall apart. Students will create various stressful interracial encounters in VR that can be rescripted by participants to improve their interaction outcomes. VR provides a unique opportunity to safely test how repeated exposure to stressful interracial
encounters can provide people with numerous opportunities to “practice” interracial interaction
anxiety-reduction techniques.