All Stories

  1. Where extended reality and AI may take us: Ethical issues of impersonation and AI fakes in social virtual reality

    Article • PLOS One, April 2026, PLOS

    Mel Slater

  2. Sushi with Einstein

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater, Alon Shoa, Doron Friedman

  3. Panel: Immersive technologies and healthcare ten years from now

    Article • June 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  4. Body ownership increases the interference between observed and executed movements

    Article • PLOS One, January 2019, PLOS

    Mel Slater

  5. Remembering Nat Durlach

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, July 2016, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  6. Height, social comparison, and paranoia: An immersive virtual reality experimental study

    Article • Psychiatry Research, August 2014, Elsevier

    Mel Slater

  7. Transcending the Self in Immersive Virtual Reality

    Article • Computer, July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  8. Grand Challenges in Virtual Environments

    Article • Frontiers in Robotics and AI, May 2014, Frontiers

    Mel Slater

  9. Persuading people in a remote destination to sing by beaming there

    Article • October 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  10. Real time whole body motion mapping for avatars and robots

    Article • October 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater, Sameer Kishore

  11. Telling Stories within Immersive Virtual Environments

    Article • Leonardo, October 2013, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  12. The relationship between virtual body ownership and temperature sensitivity

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, May 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Mel Slater

  13. Human Tails: Ownership and Control of Extended Humanoid Avatars

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  14. An Evaluation of Self-Avatar Eye Movement for Virtual Embodiment

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, April 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  15. Drumming in immersive virtual reality: The body shapes the way we play

    Article • March 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  16. The impact of enhanced projector display on the responses of people to a violent scenario in immersive virtual reality

    Article • March 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  17. The building blocks of the full body ownership illusion

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Mel Slater

  18. Drift and ownership toward a distant virtual body

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Mel Slater

  19. Multitask Humanoid Control with a Brain-Computer Interface: User Experiment with HRP-2

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  20. Using brain-computer interface to steer a humanoid robot

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  21. Handshake: Realistic Human-Robot Interaction in Haptic Enhanced Virtual Reality

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, August 2011, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  22. Comparison of people's responses to real and virtual handshakes within a virtual environment

    Article • Brain Research Bulletin, June 2011, Elsevier

    Mel Slater

  23. A first person avatar system with haptic feedback

    Article • November 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  24. Proxemics with multiple dynamic characters in an immersive virtual environment

    Article • ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, October 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  25. Special Issue: Collaborative Research Center (SFB453) on High-Fidelity Telepresence and Teleaction Guest Editor's Introduction

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, October 2010, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  26. GPU based detection and mapping of collisions for haptic rendering in Immersive Virtual Reality

    Article • October 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  27. Piavca: a framework for heterogeneous interactions with virtual characters

    Article • Virtual Reality, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  28. Simulating virtual environments within virtual environments as the basis for a psychophysics of presence

    Article • July 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  29. Simulating virtual environments within virtual environments as the basis for a psychophysics of presence

    Article • ACM Transactions on Graphics, July 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  30. Goal orientated Brain-Computer interfaces for Control: a virtual smart home application study

    Article • BMC Neuroscience, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  31. The contribution of real-time mirror reflections of motor actions on virtual body ownership in an immersive virtual environment

    Article • March 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  32. Testing the continuum of delusional beliefs: An experimental study using virtual reality.

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Psychology, February 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mel Slater

  33. Human-Computer Interface Issues in Controlling Virtual Reality With Brain-Computer Interface

    Article • Human-Computer Interaction, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Mel Slater

  34. Inducing illusory ownership of a virtual body

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, September 2009, Frontiers

    Mel Slater

  35. Correlations between Vocal Input and Visual Response Apparently Enhance Presence in a Virtual Environment

    Article • CyberPsychology & Behavior, August 2009, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Mel Slater

  36. Virtual Smart Home Controlled by Thoughts

    Article • June 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  37. Inducing a virtual hand ownership illusion through a brain–computer interface

    Article • Neuroreport, April 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mel Slater

  38. Brain-computer interfaces for goal orientated control of a virtual smart home environment

    Article • April 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  39. Virtual reality and persecutory delusions: Safety and feasibility

    Article • Schizophrenia Research, September 2008, Elsevier

    Mel Slater, Prof Chris Barker

  40. Towards a digital body: The virtual arm illusion

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2008, Frontiers

    Mel Slater

  41. A Visibility Field for Ray Tracing

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  42. A Non-parametric Guide for Radiance Sampling in Global Illumination

    Article • August 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Mel Slater

  43. The Use of Questionnaire Data in Presence Studies: Do Not Seriously Likert

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, August 2007, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  44. Editorial Notes: Changes in Presence

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, February 2007, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  45. Navigating Virtual Reality by Thought: What Is It Like?

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, February 2007, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  46. The virtual playground: an educational virtual reality environment for evaluating interactivity and conceptual learning

    Article • Virtual Reality, October 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  47. Guest Editor's Introduction

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, October 2006, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  48. Sharing and Analyzing Data from Presence Experiments

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, October 2006, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  49. Guest Editors' Introduction

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, August 2006, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  50. The role of posture in the communication of affect in an immersive virtual environment

    Article • June 2006, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  51. Walking from thought

    Article • Brain Research, February 2006, Elsevier

    Mel Slater

  52. Editorial Notes

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, October 2005, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  53. From presence to consciousness through virtual reality

    Article • Nature Reviews Neuroscience, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  54. How Colorful Was Your Day? Why Questionnaires Cannot Assess Presence in Virtual Environments

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, August 2004, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  55. Presence and Emotions

    Article • CyberPsychology & Behavior, February 2004, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Mel Slater

  56. Fast ray tracing of scenes with unstructured motion

    Article • January 2004, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  57. Social Anxiety in Virtual Environments: Results of a Pilot Study

    Article • CyberPsychology & Behavior, June 2003, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Mel Slater

  58. Social anxiety in virtual environments: A pilot study

    Article • January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mel Slater

  59. Editorial Note

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, August 2002, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  60. Presence and The Sixth Sense

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, August 2002, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  61. Constant Time Queries on Uniformly Distributed Points on a Hemisphere

    Article • Journal of Graphics Tools, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Mel Slater

  62. Meeting People Virtually: Experiments in Shared Virtual Environments

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  63. Guest Editors' Introduction

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, February 2001, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  64. Components for Distributed Virtual Environments

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, February 2001, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  65. An experiment on fear of public speaking in virtual reality

    Article • January 2001, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mel Slater

  66. A Virtual Presence Counter

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, October 2000, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  67. Component framework infrastructure for virtual environments

    Article • September 2000, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  68. Dynamic Polygon Visibility Ordering for Head‐Slaved Viewing in Virtual Environments

    Article • Computer Graphics Forum, June 2000, Wiley

    Mel Slater

  69. Guest Editor's Introduction

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, April 2000, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  70. Presence in Shared Virtual Environments and Virtual Togetherness

    Article • PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality, April 2000, The MIT Press

    Mel Slater

  71. Components for distributed virtual environments

    Article • December 1999, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  72. Three-dimensional versus two-dimensional displays for air traffic control

    Article • August 1997, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Mel Slater

  73. View volume culling using a probabilistic caching scheme

    Article • January 1997, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  74. Collaborative Geometrical Modeling in Immersive Virtual Environments

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  75. Distributed Extensible Virtual Reality Laboratory (DEVRL)

    Article • January 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  76. 3D Interaction with the Desktop Bat

    Article • Computer Graphics Forum, May 1995, Wiley

    Mel Slater

  77. An exploration of immersive virtual environments

    Article • Endeavour, January 1995, Elsevier

    Mel Slater

  78. The Virtual Treadmill: A Naturalistic Metaphor for Navigation in Immersive Virtual Environments

    Article • January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  79. The Influence of Dynamic Shadows on Presence in Immersive Virtual Environments

    Article • January 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  80. Shadow volume BSP trees for computation of shadows in dynamic scenes

    Article • January 1995, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mel Slater

  81. STEPS AND LADDERS IN VIRTUAL REALITY

    Article • August 1994, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Mel Slater

  82. A USER-DEFINED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT DIALOGUE ARCHITECTURE

    Article • August 1994, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Mel Slater

  83. ENABLING TECHNOLOGY FOR VR

    Article • August 1994, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Mel Slater

  84. 2D line and polygon clipping based on space subdivision

    Article • The Visual Computer, August 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  85. A Multiprocessor Implementation of Radiosity

    Article • Computer Graphics Forum, December 1993, Wiley

    Mel Slater

  86. Simulating peripheral vision in immersive virtual environments

    Article • Computers & Graphics, November 1993, Elsevier

    Mel Slater

  87. An algorithm to support 3D interaction on relatively low performance graphics systems

    Article • Computers & Graphics, September 1992, Elsevier

    Mel Slater

  88. Tracing a ray through uniformly subdividedn-dimensional space

    Article • The Visual Computer, January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  89. A comparison of three shadow volume algorithms

    Article • The Visual Computer, January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  90. A Generalised Event Mechanism for Interactive Systems

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  91. Stochastic Ray Tracing Using SIMD Processor Arrays

    Article • The Visual Computer, July 1991, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  92. Graphics Object Management in The X Window System

    Article • Computer Graphics Forum, June 1990, Wiley

    Mel Slater

  93. Functional programming for GLMs

    Article • January 1989, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  94. A Top Down Method for Interactive Drawing

    Article • Computer Graphics Forum, December 1988, Wiley

    Mel Slater

  95. Segments on bit‐mapped graphics displays

    Article • Software Practice and Experience, November 1986, Wiley

    Mel Slater

  96. GLIM — A Developing System

    Article • January 1983, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater, Professor Brian Francis

  97. Spatial Social Behavior in Second Life

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  98. Reconstruction and Recognition of Occluded Facial Expressions Using PCA

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  99. Piavca: A Framework for Heterogeneous Interactions with Virtual Characters

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater

  100. Male Bodily Responses during an Interaction with a Virtual Woman

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Mel Slater