Virtual humans elicit socially anxious interactants' verbal selfdisclosure

SH Kang, J Gratch - Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… that virtual humans can be more effective in eliciting self-disclosure in socially anxious
people than real human interviewers, thereby providing key insights into the design of virtual

People like virtual counselors that highly-disclose about themselves

SH Kang, J Gratch - Annual Review of Cybertherapy and …, 2011 - ebooks.iospress.nl
… and social attraction toward virtual humans who provide high levels of selfdisclosure and
intimate details compared to other virtual humans who disclose less intimate information or no …

Fostering relatedness between children and virtual agents through reciprocal self-disclosure

F Burger, J Broekens, MA Neerincx - BNAIC 2016: Artificial Intelligence …, 2017 - Springer
… through the reciprocal disclosure of information about the self. Inspired by these … disclosure
dialog module to study the self-disclosing behavior of children in response to that of a virtual

How does a virtual human earn your trust? guidelines to improve willingness to self-disclose to intelligent virtual agents

C You, R Ghosh, A Maxim, J Stuart, E Cooks… - … on Intelligent Virtual …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
… We propose guidelines to address current participantidentified barriers to utilize virtual
humans for self-disclosure and improve willingness to disclose to virtual humans. …

The effect of avatar realism of virtual humans on self-disclosure in anonymous social interactions

SH Kang, J Gratch - … Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
… interactants’ self-disclosure when they communicate with virtual humans or real humans in
… Although there was no main effect of AFI on self-disclosure, we suggest that virtual humans

It's only a computer: Virtual humans increase willingness to disclose

GM Lucas, J Gratch, A King, LP Morency - Computers in Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
… with virtual human interviewer. In this study, all participants interacted with a virtual human
… , either that the virtual human interviewer was teleo-operated by a human (like a puppet) or …

Interactants' Most Intimate Self-disclosure in Interactions with Virtual Humans

SH Kang, J Gratch - Intelligent Virtual Agents: 9th International Conference …, 2009 - Springer
… However, no studies of virtual humans have investigated the impact of the combination of …
visual realism of virtual humans and interactants’ AFI on interactants’ self-disclosure, when …

Revealing sensitive information in personal interviews: Is self-disclosure easier with humans or avatars and under what conditions?

MD Pickard, CA Roster, Y Chen - Computers in Human Behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
… , virtual humans) can replace human interviewers to collect personal information in interviews,
especially for topics that might be regarded as ‘sensitive’. This paper presents results from …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of agent's self-disclosure on human empathy

T Tsumura, S Yamada - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
… of AI agents, including intelligent virtual agents and robots, is … AI in human society. One way
to improve the relationship between humans and anthropomorphic agents is to have humans

The virtual" me" is the actual me: Self-disclosure in virtual environment

R Hooi, H Cho - 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… , self-presence and the theory of self-awareness, we specify alternative mechanisms through
which avatar similarity affects self-disclosure in a virtual … effect on selfdisclosure, but the …