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PERSUASIVE
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Persuasive Power of Virtual Reality: Effects of Simulated Human Distress on Attitudes towards Fire Safety
Although virtual reality (VR) is a powerful simulation tool that can allow users to experience the effects of their actions in vivid and memorable ways, explorations of VR as a per...
Luca Chittaro, Nicola Zangrando
EXPERT
2002
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13 years 5 months ago
Toward a New Generation of Virtual Humans for Interactive Experiences
Jeff Rickel, Stacy Marsella, Jonathan Gratch, Rand...
PRICAI
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Towards Artificial Systems: What Can We Learn from Human Perception?
Research in learning algorithms and sensor hardware has led to rapid advances in artificial systems over the past decade. However, their performance continues to fall short of the ...
Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Lewis L. Chuang
IVA
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Should Agents Speak Like, um, Humans? The Use of Conversational Fillers by Virtual Agents
We describe the design and evaluation of an agent that uses the fillers um and uh in its speech. We describe an empirical study of human-human dialogue, analyzing gaze behavior dur...
Laura M. Pfeifer, Timothy W. Bickmore
HAPTICS
2007
IEEE
14 years 12 days ago
Towards Just Noticeable Differences for Natural Frequency of Manually Excited Virtual Dynamic Systems
This paper explores the experiment design to determine a human’s ability to discriminate the natural frequency of manually excited virtual dynamic systems. We use a one degree-o...
Yanfang Li, Volkan Patoglu, Deborah Huang, Marcia ...