The Family Research Center’s virtual reality laboratory supports simulation software designed for the study and prevention of violence. Our equipment is also mobile, allowing for virtual reality simulations to happen at various project sites.
Numerous projects currently utilize the virtual reality software. Click the image below for a brief example of one of the virtual environments teens experience:
Virtual Reality and Teen Peer Interactions
We have multiple projects that utilize virtual reality, where teens participate in simulations. Teens interact with an avatar, whose speech, gestures, and physical actions are controlled by an actor who creates the interactions that the teens experience.
A fully interactive experience, the virtual reality technology creates realistic, ecologically valid situations for observing teens’ behavior in social interactions.
