Ivanov

We present an early prototype of a virtual reality environment, intended to teach pre-teenage children how to deal with bullying situations. The environment consists of several scenes where the participant needs to resolve a bullying conflict. The simulation is based on short dialogs between the bully and the participant. We employ natural language processing to accept the participant's verbal responses to the bully's taunts and use these responses to drive the simulation. The participant is expected to determine on his/her own the correct approach to resolving the bullying situation.