Ulysses BernardetUlysses Bernardet is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology of the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Zurich, and has a background in psycholgy, computer science and neurobiology. He is the main author of the large-scale neural systems simulator iqr, has developed models of insect cognition, and conceptualized and realized a number of complex, real-time interactive systems. Ulysses’ research follows an interdisciplinary approach that brings together psychological and neurobiological models of behavior regulation, motivation, and emotion with mixed and virtual reality. At the core of his current research activity is the development of models of personality and nonverbal communication. These models are embodied in virtual humans and interact with biological humans in real-time. Ulysses likes to refer to this approach of “understanding humans by building them” as Synthetic Psychology. Read More Read Less