Virtual Reality to Optimize Business Management
Michael Schyns
In this episode (in French), Arnaud Stiepen and Michael Schyns explore the potential of digital twins to optimize organizational processes, focusing on the concrete case of Liège Airport — one of his flagship ongoing projects, where collaborations are expanding.
They also address the growing role of virtual reality in developing soft skills. Thanks to avatars simulating realistic situations in a safe environment, these technologies allow people to practice public speaking, stress management, and conflict resolution.
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Scientific articles discussed in this episode
Etienne, E., Leclercq, A.-L., Remacle, A., Dessart, L., & Schyns, M. (15 July 2023). Perception of avatars nonverbal behaviors in virtual reality. Psychology and Marketing, 40 (11), 2464-2481. doi:10.1002/mar.21871 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/295381
Etienne, E., Ristorcelli, M., Saufnay, S., Quilez, A., Casanova, R., Schyns, M., & Ochs, M. (2024). A Systematic Review on the Socio-affective Perception of IVAs' Multi-modal behaviour. In IVA '24: Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 10). New-York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3652988.3673943 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/321437
Saufnay, S., Etienne, E., & Schyns, M. (10 June 2024). Development and evaluation of Virtual Reality environments for public speaking training [Paper presentation]. AIRSI2024 The Metaverse Conference goes offline, Spain. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/320035
Tonka, J., & Schyns, M. (16 May 2024). How can digital twins optimize the air cargo industry? A combination of operational research and machine learning techniques [Poster presentation]. HEC Liège - Research day. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/318383
Tonka, J., & Schyns, M. (2021). The digital twin concept: a definition attempt. ORBi-University of Liège. https://hdl.handle.net/2268/265031
