Program
Haaß-talk
The Haaß-Talk is an annual public lecture event of the Ursula and Dieter Haaß Foundation at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. One of the goals of the foundation is to promote dialogue between science and society by inviting worldwide leading researchers from social sciences and economics to share their research with a broad audience. This year's Haaß-Talk is co-hosted by the SCSC 2027 and will feature Prof. Dr. Michael Tomasello, an internationally renowned comparative psychologist and antropologist. Tomasello is widely recognized for his pioneering research on human cognition, language acquisition, social cooperation, and the evolutionary origins of human communication and culture.
Pre-conference Workshop & Doctoral Symposium
Workshop: Design and Analysis of Eye and Hand Movement Experiments in VR
Hosted by Dr. Omar Jubran, this workshop will introduce the Visual Hand Paradigm, a paradigm that leverages hand and eye-movements movements in Virtual Reality (VR) as indicators of decision-making processes .Spatiotemporal tracking of hand and eye movements enables the investigation of decision-making dynamics at the single-trial level. Spatiotemporal Survival Analysis (StSA) provides a flexible, data-driven, and theory-free framework for analyzing continuous behavioral data. Recent works have shown how StSA can capture subtle temporal patterns in hand and eye trajectories that traditional averaging methods often overlook. The workshop will introduce how to apply these methods to different experimental designs, linking perception and action during decision-making in immersive environments. It will be divided into two parts: the first part will provide a brief theoretical introduction to the paradigm, along with an overview of previous experimental results; the second part will be hands-on, demonstrating how to design, program, and analyze experiments that integrate eye and hand movements using StSA.
Doctoral Symposium
SCSC 2027 encourages doctoral researchers to participate in its dedicated Doctoral Symposium, which provides them an opportunity to present and discuss their research with established international researchers and other PhD students and become integrated into the field. The symposium is open to all PhD students attending SCSC 2027. Please note that students who have submitted an abstract through the conference website and completed their conference registration might be considered for participation in the Doctoral Symposium. The format allows for 4 Talks (12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes discussion].
The Pre-conference Workshop & Doctoral Symposium offer doctoral researchers a dedicated academic setting for research exchange, discussion, and networking.
If you are interested in participating, please Register here