Timing: since 2024
Funding: the State of North-Rhine Westphalia (Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen)

About the Project: InVirtuo 4.0 combines the expertise from computer science, neuroscience, neurology, psychology, media studies, and applied ethics to develop and improve experimental designs for research of human behavior in virtual reality environments.

The aim is to combine the unique know-how and hardware of University of Bonn’s Visual Computing Incubator and TU Dortmund’s Graphics & Geometry Lab in the creation of digital (human) twins that can be used in applied research – such as in our pilot projects. Equally important, aiming to pursue this goal in a critically reflected and ethical way, setting new standards for “in virtuo research”, meaning the scanning processes, behavior in VR, and the handling of this type of data.

Principle Investigators: Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek (Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences), Dr. Dr. Ahmad Aziz, Prof. Dr.Dr. Dominik R. Bach, Prof. Dr. Mario Botsch, Dr. Niclas Braun, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Friedrich, Prof. Dr. Bert Heinrichs, Prof. Dr. Matthias B. Hullin, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Klein, Prof. Dr. Björn Krüger, Prof. Dr. Alexandra Philipsen, Prof. Dr. Martin Reuter