Marianne Schmid Mast is a professor of Organizational Behavior. Her research interests include social interactions, verbal and nonverbal communication and power hierarchies.
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Interpersonal skills training is about to get a little less personal, it seems. A new paper from Marianne Schmid Mast and co-authors suggests that our role-playing training partners of the future may not be our colleagues or managers, but virtual humans instead.
5 min read Continue reading Disrupting human resource development: The impact of immersive virtual reality
Whether it is negotiating, selling, motivating, or even dating, people with access to the latest social sensing technologies and techniques will have a distinct advantage as they engage in a range of activities, business related or otherwise. While they may not be able to read minds, they will be able to monitor the impact of their social interactions on others in real time, and modify their behavior accordingly to achieve their desired outcome.
4 min read Continue reading Watching me, watching you: making sense of social interaction
