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Oral Presentation: The ViContact VR Training: Virtual Children and their Response Algorithm

22 June, 2022 @ 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm

Title: The ViContact VR Training: Virtual Children and their Response Algorithm

Abstract:

In this presentation, the ViContact VR training will be introduced in more detail. The ViContact VR training is a virtual training environment in which participants can practice in an action-oriented way how to talk to children in suspected cases of child sexual abuse in order to find out whether and what happened to a child.

For this purpose, virtual children aged about 10 years have been developed who have general knowledge about their own circumstances and knowledge about a stressful event. This could be a sexual abuse, another event requiring intervention, or some other stressful event with no need for intervention.

The presentation will focus on the algorithm developed to determine how virtual children respond to participants’ questions and comments. The basic idea of this complex probabilistic scheme is that children are more likely to reveal their knowledge when questioning is open and socio-emotionally supportive than when questioning is closed or suggestive.

In this way, the algorithm supports the training goal, as participants can only achieve it if they question the child appropriately.

 

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Date:
22 June, 2022
Time:
3:20 pm - 3:40 pm
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WDC403