Arthur MANEUVRIER

I'm a teacher, engineer and researcher

Specializing in cognitive science, experimental methodology, statistics, virtual reality applications, epistemology and philosophies of mind. I'm currently a temporary assistant professor at the Université de Bretagne Occidental, in Brest, France. My academic profile is available here, while the programs I have coded, mainly virtual environments, are here. I am also an amateur video game developer and photographer. Feel free to contact me for any of these reasons at contact@arthurmaneuvrier.

Uxisama: a roll-playing game project

Choose to play as the Adventurer, the Researcher, the Seducer, or the Dreamer, and write the story of a character arriving on Ouessant on November 4, 1903, and finding themselves caught up in a dark fantasy adventure. The story blends real historical and cultural facts about the island of Ushant with Celtic, Christian, and Lovecraftian mythological elements.

Go the dedicated website to try the prototype for free or to register on the newsletter. The game is available in French and English.

Experimenter bias: exploring the interaction between participant’s and investigator’s gender/sex in VR

This study published in Virtual Reality explores the effect of the experimenter’s gender/sex and its interaction with the participant’s gender/sex as potential contributors to the replicability crisis, particularly in the man-gendered domain of VR. 75 young men and women from Western France were randomly evaluated by either a man or a woman during a 13-min immersion in a first-person shooter game.

Results indicate that men and women differ in their reports of cybersickness and video game experience when rated by men, whereas they report similar measures when rated by women. These findings are interpreted as consequences of the psychosocial stress triggered by the interaction between the two genders/sexes, as well as the gender conformity effect induced, particularly in women, by the presence of a man in a masculine domain.

Media coverage

• Article of the ACFAS Magazine:
  La réalité virtuelle : un outil devenu objet de recherche.
• Article of the French Consulate in Québec, following the thesis prize:
  Découvrez le prix de thèse en cotutelle franco-québécoise.
• Article of Tendance Ouest about the use of virtual reality for biomedical neurosciences:
  A Caen, la réalité virtuelle au service de la recherche médicale.