Research has shown that virtual agents can be effective tools for teaching negotiation. Virtual agents provide an opportuni-ty for students to practice their negotiation skills which leads to better outcomes. However, these negotiation training agents ...

Self-report questionnaires like PHQ-9 and GAD-7 are often used in the field of psychology to detect mental health problems and measure their severity. Their validity has been well established by a number of previous studies. However, most previous ...

Interpersonal touch remains one of the most puzzling and challenging aspects of communication in virtual reality. A brief touch can be used to influence one's behavior. Our study aimed to analyze the influence of an agent's touch on men's compliance and ...

Although socially interactive agents have emerged as a new metaphor for human-computer interaction, they are, to date, absent from the Internet. We describe the design choices, implementation, and challenges in building EEVA, the first fully integrated ...

Explainable? virtual agents provide insight into the agent's decision-making process, which aims to improve the user's acceptance of the agent's actions or recommendations. However, explainable agents commonly rely on their own knowledge and goals in ...

The system that links intelligent agents to their world is their synthetic senses, allowing them to perceive and interact with the world around them. How such a system is modelled is important since an agent uses the data generated by its synthetic ...

In the intelligent virtual agent domain, several machine learning models have been proposed to automatically determine the feedbacks of virtual agents during an interaction, using human-human interaction datasets as training corpora and most commonly ...

This paper discusses the design and technical choices of a proof of concept migrating video game character that can move from a game environment to a holographic environment rendered on a novel holographic light field display. We pair these two ...

Research into artificial social agents aims at constructing these agents and at establishing an empirically grounded understanding of them, their interaction with humans, and how they can ultimately deliver certain outcomes in areas such as health, ...

Elementary school classrooms are emotionally stressful environments, for both students and teachers. Successful teachers use strategies that regulate students' emotions and behaviors while also controlling their own emotions (stress, nervousness). To ...

Health care delivery in military conflict, in peacekeeping missions or in the aftermath of disaster, implies high stress environments with danger exposures, life-threatening events and high levels of work demand. Crisis and emergency risk communication ...

Non-adherence to a treatment plan recommended by the therapist is a key cause of the increasing rate of chronic medical conditions globally. The therapist-patient therapeutic alliance is regarded as a successful intervention and a good predictor of ...

Agents (virtual/physical) in a learning environment can be introduced in different roles, such as a tutor, mentor, motivator, expert, peer student etc. Each agent type brings an expertise, creating a unique social relationship with students. Depending ...

In a medical environment, coordination between medical staff is imperative. In cases in which a human doctor or medical coordinator is not present, patient care, particularly from non-experts, becomes more difficult. The difficulty increases when care ...