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IVA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents
Abstract. Recent research has established the potential for virtual characters to establish rapport with humans through simple contingent nonverbal behaviors. We hypothesized that ...
Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, Jillian Gerten, Edward...
AIED
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Can Virtual Human Build Rapport and Promote Learning?
Research show that teacher's nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student's cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of ...
Ning Wang, Jonathan Gratch
IVA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Modeling Behavioral Manifestations of Coordination and Rapport over Multiple Conversations - Speaking Rate as a Relational Indic
Many potential applications of virtual agents require an agent to conduct multiple conversations with users. An effective and engaging agent should modify its behavior in realisti...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Does the contingency of agents' nonverbal feedback affect users' social anxiety?
We explored the association between users' social anxiety and the interactional fidelity of an agent (also referred to as a virtual human), specifically addressing whether th...
Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, James H....
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Creating densely populated virtual environments
Ryan McAlinden, Don M. Dini, Chirag Merchant, Mich...