Conversations with a virtual human: Synthetic emotions and human responses

C Qu, WP Brinkman, Y Ling, P Wiggers… - Computers in Human …, 2014 - Elsevier
… We investigated the human responses to the synthetic emotions of a virtual human. …
compared to positive synthetic emotions expressed by a virtual human can elicit a more negative …

The effect of dynamics on identifying basic emotions from synthetic and natural faces

J Kätsyri, M Sams - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2008 - Elsevier
… of dynamic over static synthetic stimuli were due to longer response latencies, dynamic … that
the dynamics effect of synthetic stimuli was related to response latencies. Plausibly, dynamic …

Designing synthetic emotions of a robotic system

N Casiddu, F Burlando, C Porfirione… - Human Systems …, 2021 - Springer
… are way less expressive than synthetic characters being presented on flat screen monitors.
Even though it is often believed that the attempt to develop an emotional response to a robot …

Synthetic emotions for empathic building

JL Salmeron, A Ruiz-Celma - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
synthetic emotions based on Thayer’s emotional model and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. This
emotional … reactions, eliciting behavioral intentions, and generating reasonable responses from …

Recognizing emotion in virtual agent, synthetic human, and human facial expressions

JM Beer, AD Fisk, WA Rogers - Proceedings of the Human …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
… Participants had up to 20 seconds to make a response. Although four … -related differences
in emotion recognition are generalizable to emotive synthetic human faces and virtual agent …

Toward the simulation of emotion in synthetic speech: A review of the literature on human vocal emotion

IR Murray, JL Arnott - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1993 - pubs.aip.org
emotion responses are consequently cross cultural, while responses to nonbasic emotions
are learned, and hence culture dependent; this theory was studied for vocal emotions by van …

Recognising emotions in human and synthetic faces: the role of the upper and lower parts of the face

E Costantini, F Pianesi, M Prete - … of the 10th international conference on …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
… the responses of 74 subjects to the presentations of dynamic (human and synthetic) faces…
The results points to the possibility of: a) addressing the issue of the naturalness of synthetic

“I can feel it too!”: Emergent empathic reactions between synthetic characters

SH Rodrigues, SF Mascarenhas… - 2009 3rd international …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
response occurs? If we only consider the emotional cues perceived from others, then each
synthetic … In our model, an empathic response starts with an emotion generated by the …

Tears and fears: Modeling emotions and emotional behaviors in synthetic agents

J Gratch, S Marsella - Proceedings of the fifth international conference …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
Emotions play a critical role in creating engaging and believable characters to populate virtual
worlds. Our goal is to create general computational models to support characters that act …

Evaluation of synthetic faces: Human recognition of emotional facial displays

E Costantini, F Pianesi, P Cosi - Tutorial and Research Workshop on …, 2004 - Springer
… dimension (ds) is substantially stable across synthetic faces and mode of animation; c) the
number of confusion categories along the response dimension (dr) shows a clear ascending …