Judgement and decision-making in the virtual and real worlds

11/20/2023 07:00 pm 11/21/2023 09:30 pm Australia/Melbourne Judgement and decision-making in the virtual and real worlds

How is human behaviour affected in a virtual world? How are our decisions, our emotions and our approaches to risk swayed by virtual reality (VR) environments?

These fascinating challenges and more will be explored in the fifth annual Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory (MBBL) Symposium.

A free online event, the symposium will span two evenings on 20 and 21 November, hosting an interdisciplinary panel of VR experts, who will probe data insights from virtual environments, use of VR simulators for human judgement research, executive function assessment and elicitation of risk preferences, VR's role in emotion regulation and decision-making, and VR's impact in retail.

Decision-making processes in virtual/ digital spaces, especially those influenced by misbeliefs, and dynamics of screen time management will also be explored.

Attendees can expect a thorough examination of judgement and decision-making in VR and beyond, with opportunities for discussion, Q&A sessions, and collaboration.

View the SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM HERE.

Speakers

Professor Charmine Härtel, Department of Management and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School
Prof Härtel is a Distinguished Professor of Management, an Associate Dean Research Impact and Director of the Opportunity Tech Lab at Monash Business School.
Prof Härtel is an eminent scholar-practitioner in inclusive employment, entrepreneurship and emotions and wellbeing at work. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (ASSA), the (US) Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), and Society for Organizational Behavior in Australia (SOBA).
Her awards include the inaugural 2019 HR Academic of the Year Award from the Australian Human Resources Institute; the Australian Psychological Society’s Elton Mayo Award for scholarly excellence, the Martin EP Seligman Applied Research Award, and 19 best paper awards.
Dr Paul McIntosh, Virtual & Augmented Reality Services and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School
Dr McIntosh is an Innovation Lead in eSolutions at Monash University, and holds Adjunct Senior Research positions in Human Centred Computing at the university’s Faculty of IT, and at Monash Business School.
Dr McIntosh’s research and professional interests are in integrating emerging technologies (AR/VR, Data Science and Generative AI) with business processes to maximise outcomes in both performance and wellbeing in large organisations.
Dr McIntosh has deep and broad expertise in both technology and human factors, with more than 30 years’ experience in delivering outcomes in commercial and research contexts. He has worked on large-scale systems such as supercomputers, global telecommunications, advanced software modelling and submarine simulators.
Lars Kooijman, Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University
Mr Kooijman is an early career researcher at the Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University. He has degrees in Mechanical and Biomedical engineering.
His primary research focus identifies factors that enhance the fidelity of virtual environments and whether these factors improve user performance.
His cross-disciplinary research topics involve pedestrian traffic safety, human-computer interaction, and virtual reality simulator design, and his research methods involve mixed-methods, crowdsourcing, psychophysiology, multivariate statistics, and machine learning.
He has received various awards and scholarships, and been published in over 15 scientific journals.
Zhongwen Chen, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School
Ms Chen’s research interests lie in behavioural and experimental economics. Her work aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of decision-making and how these mechanisms manifest in different types of individuals.
Her current research focuses on how (mis)beliefs or perceptions can influence motivation in the context of study, work, and life, how information processing shapes these (mis)beliefs, and why individuals demand misbeliefs.
Ms Chen is the manager of the MonLEE (Monash Laboratory of Experimental Economics) and coordinates the BET (Behavioural, Experimental, and Theory Research Group) research group meetings. She received the Department Of Economics Teaching Award for Teaching Associates in 2022.
Dr Benjamin Tag, Embodied Visualisation Group, Faculty of IT, Monash University
Dr Tag is a Lecturer in the Embodied Visualisation Group at Monash University, specialising in Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and Affective Computing.
His passion lies in merging emerging technologies and cognitive psychology, enabling him to develop novel approaches for comprehensive, long-term mental state assessments in virtual and natural environments.
Dr Tag founded an award-winning startup in the insurtech world, and currently leads the science team at Optimal XR, an innovative startup with a vision to bridge the gap between emerging technology and ancient practices, all aimed at fostering emotional intelligence, the harmony of emotions, and personal growth.
Rebecca Kirkham, BrainPark, The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
Ms Kirkham is an early-career researcher focussing on affective and cognitive science. She explores VR technology use for executive-functioning assessments, the effects of cannabinoids on long-term cannabis users’ cognition, and cognitive performance in high-pressure settings.
She played a pivotal role in the successful international Delphi project to establish expert consensus on the cognitive factors required for performance under pressure.
Ms Kirkham is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology, examining emotion regulation and performance under pressure, collaborating with the Australian Defence Force.
Dr Adam Roberts, Future Resilient Systems program, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
Dr Roberts is a Human Factors psychologist and Research Fellow in the SEC’s Future Resilient Systems program. He focuses on inter-disciplinary research at the intersection of engineering and social sciences.
Dr Roberts has held research positions at Nanyang Technological University and the Faculty of Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Sheffield.
Dr Roberts has worked on projects examining financial resilience and FinTech, environmental effects on the brain and behaviour, speech and language perception, and brain-controlled adaptive automation.
Dr Anne Odile Peschel, Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Peschel’s research lies in the area of consumer behaviour as it relates to information processing and decision-making, focusing on topics such as sustainability or diversity, equity and inclusion. She likes to explore innovative research settings, such as the metaverse and virtual reality.
Dr Peschel led development of the VR Retail Lab at Aarhus University. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Retailing, Ecological Economics and Trends in Food Science and Technology.
Associate Professor Xiaojian Zhao, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School
A/Prof Zhao is the director of Monash Laboratory for Experimental Economics (MonLEE) and the deputy coordinator of the Behavioural, Experimental, and Theory (BET) Research Group.
His research covers contract theory with its applications in industrial organisation and finance, and behavioural and experimental economics with particular focus on economics of motivated beliefs.
He has published in leading journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Management Science and Games and Economic Behavior.
His research achievements were recognised with the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence at Monash Business School in 2022.

Hosts

Associate Professor Kristian Rotaru, Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory, Monash Business School

A/Prof Rotaru is a decision scientist working across a variety of business disciplines, including accounting, information systems, finance and operations management.

He also conducts research in cognitive psychology, with a focus on impulsive and compulsive behaviours, emotional regulation and wellbeing.

He is the Chair of the Steering Committee at the Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory, Associate Director at the Opportunity Tech Lab, and PhD Program Director in the Department of Accounting, Monash Business School.

Professor Russell Smyth, Department of Economics and Deputy Dean (Research), Monash Business School

Prof Smyth was previously Head of the Department of Economics and Deputy Dean (Academic Resourcing) at Monash Business School.

His research is in Energy Economics, Development Economics and Empirical Legal Studies.

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Date:: 20 November 2023 at 7:00 pm – 21 November 2023 at 9:30 pm
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Description

How is human behaviour affected in a virtual world? How are our decisions, our emotions and our approaches to risk swayed by virtual reality (VR) environments?

These fascinating challenges and more will be explored in the fifth annual Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory (MBBL) Symposium.

Decision-making processes in virtual/ digital spaces, especially those influenced by misbeliefs, and dynamics of screen time management will also be explored.

Attendees can expect a thorough examination of judgement and decision-making in VR and beyond, with opportunities for discussion, Q&A sessions, and collaboration.

View the SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM HERE.

Speakers

Professor Charmine Härtel, Department of Management and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School
Prof Härtel is a Distinguished Professor of Management, an Associate Dean Research Impact and Director of the Opportunity Tech Lab at Monash Business School.
Prof Härtel is an eminent scholar-practitioner in inclusive employment, entrepreneurship and emotions and wellbeing at work. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (ASSA), the (US) Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), and Society for Organizational Behavior in Australia (SOBA).
Her awards include the inaugural 2019 HR Academic of the Year Award from the Australian Human Resources Institute; the Australian Psychological Society’s Elton Mayo Award for scholarly excellence, the Martin EP Seligman Applied Research Award, and 19 best paper awards.
Dr Paul McIntosh, Virtual & Augmented Reality Services and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School
Dr McIntosh is an Innovation Lead in eSolutions at Monash University, and holds Adjunct Senior Research positions in Human Centred Computing at the university’s Faculty of IT, and at Monash Business School.
Dr McIntosh’s research and professional interests are in integrating emerging technologies (AR/VR, Data Science and Generative AI) with business processes to maximise outcomes in both performance and wellbeing in large organisations.
Dr McIntosh has deep and broad expertise in both technology and human factors, with more than 30 years’ experience in delivering outcomes in commercial and research contexts. He has worked on large-scale systems such as supercomputers, global telecommunications, advanced software modelling and submarine simulators.
Lars Kooijman, Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University
Mr Kooijman is an early career researcher at the Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University. He has degrees in Mechanical and Biomedical engineering.
His primary research focus identifies factors that enhance the fidelity of virtual environments and whether these factors improve user performance.
His cross-disciplinary research topics involve pedestrian traffic safety, human-computer interaction, and virtual reality simulator design, and his research methods involve mixed-methods, crowdsourcing, psychophysiology, multivariate statistics, and machine learning.
He has received various awards and scholarships, and been published in over 15 scientific journals.
Zhongwen Chen, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School
Ms Chen’s research interests lie in behavioural and experimental economics. Her work aims to understand the underlying mechanisms of decision-making and how these mechanisms manifest in different types of individuals.
Her current research focuses on how (mis)beliefs or perceptions can influence motivation in the context of study, work, and life, how information processing shapes these (mis)beliefs, and why individuals demand misbeliefs.
Ms Chen is the manager of the MonLEE (Monash Laboratory of Experimental Economics) and coordinates the BET (Behavioural, Experimental, and Theory Research Group) research group meetings. She received the Department Of Economics Teaching Award for Teaching Associates in 2022.
Dr Benjamin Tag, Embodied Visualisation Group, Faculty of IT, Monash University
Dr Tag is a Lecturer in the Embodied Visualisation Group at Monash University, specialising in Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and Affective Computing.
His passion lies in merging emerging technologies and cognitive psychology, enabling him to develop novel approaches for comprehensive, long-term mental state assessments in virtual and natural environments.
Dr Tag founded an award-winning startup in the insurtech world, and currently leads the science team at Optimal XR, an innovative startup with a vision to bridge the gap between emerging technology and ancient practices, all aimed at fostering emotional intelligence, the harmony of emotions, and personal growth.
Rebecca Kirkham, BrainPark, The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University
Ms Kirkham is an early-career researcher focussing on affective and cognitive science. She explores VR technology use for executive-functioning assessments, the effects of cannabinoids on long-term cannabis users’ cognition, and cognitive performance in high-pressure settings.
She played a pivotal role in the successful international Delphi project to establish expert consensus on the cognitive factors required for performance under pressure.
Ms Kirkham is pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology, examining emotion regulation and performance under pressure, collaborating with the Australian Defence Force.
Dr Adam Roberts, Future Resilient Systems program, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)
Dr Roberts is a Human Factors psychologist and Research Fellow in the SEC’s Future Resilient Systems program. He focuses on inter-disciplinary research at the intersection of engineering and social sciences.
Dr Roberts has held research positions at Nanyang Technological University and the Faculty of Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Sheffield.
Dr Roberts has worked on projects examining financial resilience and FinTech, environmental effects on the brain and behaviour, speech and language perception, and brain-controlled adaptive automation.
Dr Anne Odile Peschel, Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Peschel’s research lies in the area of consumer behaviour as it relates to information processing and decision-making, focusing on topics such as sustainability or diversity, equity and inclusion. She likes to explore innovative research settings, such as the metaverse and virtual reality.
Dr Peschel led development of the VR Retail Lab at Aarhus University. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Retailing, Ecological Economics and Trends in Food Science and Technology.
Associate Professor Xiaojian Zhao, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School
A/Prof Zhao is the director of Monash Laboratory for Experimental Economics (MonLEE) and the deputy coordinator of the Behavioural, Experimental, and Theory (BET) Research Group.
His research covers contract theory with its applications in industrial organisation and finance, and behavioural and experimental economics with particular focus on economics of motivated beliefs.
He has published in leading journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Management Science and Games and Economic Behavior.
His research achievements were recognised with the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence at Monash Business School in 2022.

Hosts

Associate Professor Kristian Rotaru, Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory, Monash Business School

Associate Professor Kristian Rotaru

A/Prof Rotaru is a decision scientist working across a variety of business disciplines, including accounting, information systems, finance and operations management.

He also conducts research in cognitive psychology, with a focus on impulsive and compulsive behaviours, emotional regulation and wellbeing.

Professor Russell Smyth, Department of Economics and Deputy Dean (Research), Monash Business School

Professor Russell Smyth

Prof Smyth was previously Head of the Department of Economics and Deputy Dean (Academic Resourcing) at Monash Business School.

His research is in Energy Economics, Development Economics and Empirical Legal Studies.

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Judgement and decision-making in the virtual and real worlds

Speakers

Professor Charmine Härtel, Department of Management and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School

Dr Paul McIntosh, Virtual & Augmented Reality Services and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School

Lars Kooijman, Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University

Zhongwen Chen, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School

Dr Benjamin Tag, Embodied Visualisation Group, Faculty of IT, Monash University

Rebecca Kirkham, BrainPark, The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University

Dr Adam Roberts, Future Resilient Systems program, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)

Dr Anne Odile Peschel, Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark

Associate Professor Xiaojian Zhao, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School

Hosts

Associate Professor Kristian Rotaru, Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory, Monash Business School

Professor Russell Smyth, Department of Economics and Deputy Dean (Research), Monash Business School

Event Details

Description

Speakers

Professor Charmine Härtel, Department of Management and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School

Dr Paul McIntosh, Virtual & Augmented Reality Services and Opportunity Tech Lab, Monash Business School

Lars Kooijman, Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, Deakin University

Zhongwen Chen, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School

Dr Benjamin Tag, Embodied Visualisation Group, Faculty of IT, Monash University

Rebecca Kirkham, BrainPark, The Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University

Dr Adam Roberts, Future Resilient Systems program, Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)

Dr Anne Odile Peschel, Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark

Associate Professor Xiaojian Zhao, Department of Economics and MonLEE Lab, Monash Business School

Hosts

Associate Professor Kristian Rotaru, Monash Business Behavioural Laboratory, Monash Business School

Professor Russell Smyth, Department of Economics and Deputy Dean (Research), Monash Business School

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