Digital humans as a mixed-reality solution to real-world racism. The cultural, health, and economic costs of racism are significant. New and effective racism reduction methods that target the barriers

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Digital humans as a mixed-reality solution to real-world racism. The cultural, health, and economic costs of racism are significant. New and effective racism reduction methods that target the barriers to achieving positive intergroup contact are urgently needed. Mixed-reality (MR) technologies can create highly realistic digital humans, that provide researchers with experimental control, ecological validity, and a unique functionality to change the negative intergroup dynamic via a cooperative exchange, in more natural ways than ever before. This project will uncover the optimal MR methodologies needed for an immersive, multi-sensorial and dynamic interaction to reduce racism. A significant outcome will be a scalable and effective racism-reducing MR toolkit for researchers and stakeholders to implement.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5205 - Social and Personality Psychology. Lead: Prof Fiona White