GUESTXR

A multisensory extended reality platform to foster positive social interactions.

User content often stimulates antisocial interaction and abuse, representing a threat to vulnerable adults, teenagers and children. The EU-funded GuestXR project intends to develop a socially interactive multisensory platform system that uses extended reality – virtual and augmented – as a vehicle to connect people for immersive, synchronous face to face interaction with positive social results. The project will introduce a critical innovation consisting of the intervention of artificial agents that learn over time to assist the virtual social gathering in realising its purposes. This agent, ‘The Guest’, will exploit machine learning to enable the meeting towards specific results. The project will rely on neuroscience and social psychology research on group behaviour to deliver rules to agent based models.