Virtual Humans Research

My PhD work has focused on experimentally determining if there is a similarity between how people respond to virtual humans and how they respond to real people. We started by looking at how personality effects the amount of time people are willing to spend with a virtual human Next, we looked at social psychology literature and began replicating classical tests of human-human interaction, replacing the human role with a virtual human. This allows us to directly compare how people respond to a virtual human and how they respond to a real person.

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Personality

Social Facilitation and Inhibition

Persuasion

Digital Patient

Shakespearean Karaoke

Virtual French Tutor

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