Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Description
There are increasing applications of virtual humans, such as in healthcare or virtual assistance, which require humans to interact with virtual humans. This then raises questions; how do people perceive the virtual human’s emotional expressions? Do individual differences such as social anxiety play a role in the interaction? In this talk, we present a few studies that are related to these questions. We investigate how people perceive the virtual human’s emotional expressions, in terms of mimicry, liking, and trust. We also explore the social effects of subtle emotional cues such as pupil dilation. We made use of different experimental tasks; a listening task where participants listened and watched virtual humans telling a story, and a speaking task where participants gave a speech to a virtual audience. In the speaking task, we investigate how the virtual audience’s condition, such as encouraging or critical, could influence the participant’s evaluations of the virtual audience and anxiety during the task.
Period
18 Jul 2024
Event title
Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, ISRE 2024