Description
Organizing a symposium together with co-chair dr. Katja Kölkebeck:----------
"Virtual-based training programs in clinical domains"
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With advances in human-computer interaction technology, many recent applications can be very useful in clinical domains. For example, virtual agents that detect people’s health problems early and could help them find relevant clinical practices, or virtual reality exposure therapy that trains people with phobias to face their fear gradually in a safe environment. This symposium consists of four presentations related to this topic and it will be followed with a discussion. We will first present the research findings related to emotion in clinical groups. What specific traits do patients have? How avatars can be used in studying emotion processing in patients? Second, we will present practical findings on how people perceive virtual human’s emotional expressions and the influence of social anxiety. Third, we will present a new project about the development of an emotion training tool that makes use of non-acted emotion expression data. As the final presentation, we will show virtual reality applications for vulnerable groups, including how they could be designed and the challenges that exist when researching such applications. After all the presentations, we will have a discussion session where we could discuss the conclusions and future research, and answer some final questions.
| Period | 18 Jul 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Belfast, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |