Recent advances in extended reality (XR) technologies have enabled new and increasingly
realistic empathy tools and experiences. In XR, all interactions take place in different spatial …

Medical education is transforming thanks to medical schools adopting innovations to
prepare new clinicians, paramedics as well as nurses for emerging models of care. In …

This review aims to identify and systematically evaluate the use of virtual assessments of
social exclusion in persons with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The authors screened …

Professionalism and communication skills are important aspects of medical training, and
virtual patient applications can offer cost effective, easily accessible platforms for …

Virtual reality (VR) is a valuable research tool offering advantages in terms of high
experimenter control and standardization in the simulation of vivid personal and social …

The traditional Cyberball paradigm is a 2D virtual ball-toss game that uses line drawn
characters for research on ostracism. Using this paradigm, studies have reported increased …

The virtual school environment has been developed and validated by the Computational
Neuropsychology and Simulation (CNS) Laboratory of Dr. Thomas Parsons. The …

Background: Human beings have a basic need for healthy social connections. In our
everyday lives, being rejected or excluded when we try to establish or maintain social …

Vicarious pain refers to the processes and experiences that arise from observations of other
people in pain. Due to the interpersonal and multi-modal nature of these processes …