2026 Mel Slater: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	108	258	251	3	3	408	58584

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Mel Slater is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain and has a research profile characterized by a strong focus on virtual and augmented reality, as well as their psychological and technological implications. Their body of work intersects computer science and psychology, with 52 publications in computer science and 50 in psychology.

Their research spans prominent subfields such as human-computer interaction, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and clinical psychology.

The primary research topics addressed by Slater include:

Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Action Observation and Synchronization
Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
Augmented Reality Applications
Health disparities and outcomes

Slater has contributed multiple papers to influential publication venues with a high output in "Frontiers in Virtual Reality," along with publications in "Nature Mental Health," "Scientific Reports," "Frontiers in Psychology," and "Virtual Reality."

Recent representative papers authored by Slater include:

The Ethics of Realism in Virtual and Augmented Reality (2020) in Frontiers in Virtual Reality
A Separate Reality: An Update on Place Illusion and Plausibility in Virtual Reality (2022) in Frontiers in Virtual Reality

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Slater are Bernhard Spanlang, Alejandro Beacco, Domna Banakou, Jaime Gallego, and Maria V. Sánchez-Vives, with multiple joint publications documented.

The research conducted by Slater often explores the intersection of immersive technology and human cognition or social behavior, investigating topics such as virtual body ownership, implicit racial bias, and the psychological effects related to virtual environments.

Best Publications

A framework for immersive virtual environments five: Speculations on the role of presence in virtual environments

Mel Slater;Sylvia Wilbur

3461
Citations
Place Illusion and Plausibility Can Lead to Realistic Behaviour in Immersive Virtual Environments

Mel Slater

2675
Citations
From presence to consciousness through virtual reality

Maria V. Sanchez-Vives;Mel Slater

2196
Citations
Depth of presence in virtual environments

Mel Slater;Martin Usoh;Anthony Steed

1818
Citations
Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

Mel Slater;Mel Slater;Mel Slater;Maria V. Sanchez-Vives;Maria V. Sanchez-Vives

1754
Citations
The sense of embodiment in virtual reality

Konstantina Kilteni;Raphaela Groten;Mel Slater

1638
Citations
Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of mental health disorders.

D Freeman;S Reeve;A Robinson;A Ehlers

1353
Citations
Walking > walking-in-place > flying, in virtual environments

Martin Usoh;Kevin Arthur;Mary C. Whitton;Rui Bastos

1225
Citations
Using Presence Questionnaires in Reality

Martin Usoh;Ernest Catena;Sima Arman;Mel Slater

1214
Citations
First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality.

Mel Slater;Mel Slater;Bernhard Spanlang;Bernhard Spanlang;María Victoria Sánchez-Vives;Olaf Blanke

1204
Citations
Measuring Presence: A Response to the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaire

Mel Slater

1163
Citations
Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias

Tabitha C. Peck;Sofia Seinfeld;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Mel Slater

1045
Citations
Taking steps: the influence of a walking technique on presence in virtual reality

Mel Slater;Martin Usoh;Anthony Steed

1040
Citations
A Virtual Presence Counter

Mel Slater;Anthony Steed

921
Citations
Immersive journalism: Immersive virtual reality for the first-person experience of news

Nonny de la Peòa;Peggy Weil;Joan Llobera;Bernhard Spanlang

797
Citations
Illusory ownership of a virtual child body causes overestimation of object sizes and implicit attitude changes

Domna Banakou;Raphaela Groten;Mel Slater

758
Citations
Behavioral, Neural, and Computational Principles of Bodily Self-Consciousness

Olaf Blanke;Olaf Blanke;Mel Slater;Mel Slater;Andrea Serino

747
Citations
An experiment on public speaking anxiety in response to three different types of virtual audience

David-Paul Pertaub;Mel Slater;Chris Barker

692
Citations
Inducing illusory ownership of a virtual body

Mel Slater;Daniel Perez-Marcos;H. Henrik Ehrsson;María Victoria Sánchez-Vives;María Victoria Sánchez-Vives

671
Citations
Immersion and the illusion of presence in virtual reality.

Mel Slater;Mel Slater

668
Citations
Self-paced (asynchronous) BCI control of a wheelchair in virtual environments: a case study with a tetraplegic

Robert Leeb;Doron Friedman;Gernot R. Müller-Putz;Reinhold Scherer

648
Citations
Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias consciousness and cognition

Tabitha C. Peck;Sofia Seinfeld;Salvatore M. Aglioti;Mel Slater

31
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Steed University College London

Maria V. Sanchez-Vives Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

Daniel Freeman University of Oxford

Christoph Guger Graz University of Technology

Robert Leeb MindMaze

Gert Pfurtscheller Graz University of Technology

Philippa Garety King's College London

Chris Barker University College London

Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge

Elizabeth Kuipers King's College London

External Links

Personal website of Mel Slater Google Scholar page

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