On Thursday, 28 September 2017, RWTH Aachen University organize a workshop on „VR Experiments in Economics“.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together some of the people who already conducted or currently plan to conduct VR experiments, and discuss the potential of VR for behavioral research.
The Workshop Schedule
| Time | Speakers | Title of the Presentation |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Thomas Kittsteiner, RWTH Aachen University | Welcome |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Alessandro Innocenti, University of Siena | Virtual Reality Experiments in Economics, paper |
| 11:45 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Özgür Gürerk, RWTH Aachen University | Understanding the Behavioral Drivers of Execution Failures in Retail Supply Chains: An Experimental Study Using Virtual Reality, paper |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Christine Harbring, RWTH Aachen University | Competing on the Holodeck – On the effect of virtual peers and heterogeneity in dynamic tournaments |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Jantsje Mol, VU Amsterdam |
Alone in the world: cheating in the presence of a virtual bystander |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Alina Kasulke / Özgür Gürerk, RWTH Aachen University | Does Virtual Reality Increase Charitable Giving? An Experimental Study |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Transfer to the VR Lab | |
| 16:15 – 18:15 | Visiting the VR Lab & experiencing Virtual Reality | |
| 18:30 – 21:00 | Dinner |
Workshop participants who do not present: Eline van der Heijden, Jan Potters, Manwei Liu, and Wanqing Zhang (all Tilburg University), Christian Grund (RWTH Aachen University)
Download the VR Workshop Schedule.
For inquiries, please contact Özgür Gürerk (ozgur.gurerk AT rwth-aachen.de).
