Rachel McDonnell leads the Graphics Vision and Visualisation Group at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin.
In her talk "Social interactions with virtual humans", she will discuss recent work from her lab on the perception of virtual humans, with a focus on how congruent and incongruent motion and morphologies are perceived. She will also speak about avatar-based social interactions in the virtual worlds.

Michael Gaebler leads the Mind-Body-Emotion Group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.
In his talk "Towards naturalistic affective neuroscience using immersive virtual reality", he will present a set of studies, in which he and his team used immersive VR to investigate the psychophysiology of emotions under naturalistic (dynamic, interactive) conditions.