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HCI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Can Virtual Humans Be More Engaging Than Real Ones?
: Emotional bonds don’t arise from a simple exchange of facial displays, but often emerge through the dynamic give and take of face-to-face interactions. This article explores th...
Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Anna Okhmatovskaia, Fr...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Can a virtual cat persuade you?: the role of gender and realism in speaker persuasiveness
This study examines the roles of gender and visual realism in the persuasiveness of speakers. Participants were presented with a persuasive passage delivered by a male or female p...
Catherine A. Zanbaka, Paula Goolkasian, Larry F. H...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Catch me if you can: exploring lying agents in social settings
Embodied conversational agents become more and more realistic concerning their conversational and their nonverbal behaviors. But if the information conveyed nonverbally exhibits c...
Matthias Rehm, Elisabeth André
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Explorations in engagement for humans and robots
This paper explores the concept of engagement, the process by which individuals in an interaction start, maintain and end their perceived connection one another. The paper reports...
Candace L. Sidner, Christopher Lee, Cory D. Kidd, ...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...