INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
Guillaume Alinier
Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service
Guillaume Alinier, PhD, is a research director in Qatar (Hamad Medical Corporation Ambulance Service) and full professor in Great Britain (Hertfordshire) in the field of formation by health. He is active for the past two decades, after having various positions with multiple scientific societies of simulation in health and he has published several articles about this topic and also two books about debriefing. He is also affiliated with the Northumbria University and Weill Cornell Medicine of Qatar as a proffessor of education in medicine.
Frédéric Banville
UQFAR
Laboratoire de recherche Onirique
Neuropsychologist and professor at the Nursing Sciences Department of the Quebec University at Rimouski (UQAR), Frédéric Banville is the director of the Dreaming Research Laboratory. He focuses on the development and the validation of virtuals environmments meant for the ecological evolution of the cognitive functioning and the psychological intervention. He develops also immersive virtual environments for the nurses'training and other specialists of mental health. Besides developping evaluation and training serious games, he's interested in the interface's role people - machine on the cognition and other phenomenon associated to immersion as mental load, presence feeling and sense of embodiement.