Frontiers Workshop: Digital Avatars: Risks, Harms, Barriers, Opportunities

SIGGRAPH 2023 Workshop

OVERVIEW

Sunday, 6 August 20232pm – 5:30pm PDT

Digital avatars represent us in the Metaverse. Sometimes we want to be represented exactly how we are in real life, sometimes we want to be something or someone different. This workshop will bring together graphics and VR researchers and practitioners together with speakers from usable privacy to discuss digital avatars and risks, harms, barriers and opportunities for marginalized/vulnerable users.

ORGANIZERS

Eakta Jain

University of Florida

https://faculty.eng.ufl.edu/jain/bio

 

Apu Kapadia

Indiana University Bloomington

https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/kapadia/

 

Speakers

Theodore Kim

Yale University

https://seas.yale.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/theodore-kim

 

Taslima Akter

University of California, Irvine

https://aktertaslima.github.io/

 

Gregory Welch

University of Central Florida

https://nursing.ucf.edu/people/gregory-welch/