Virtual influencers, digitally-created characters with realistic human-like appearances, have
emerged as a distinctive type of virtual humans prominently featured in various virtual …

We examined the effects of virtual characters' body type and voice pitch on perceived audio-
visual correspondence and believability. For our within-group study (N= 72), we developed …

Virtual agents are important in many digital environments. Designing a character that highly
engages users in terms of interaction is an intricate task constrained by many requirements …

Research shows that particular social robots are effective in interactions with people, from
teaching young children to supporting older adult's healthcare. There is little research …

Virtual agent research has evolved into a substantial body of work, albeit one with a
fragmented structure and overlapping, and at times inconsistent, definitions and results. The …

Affective computing, as a novel paradigm, adds a new feature into the human-computer
interactions era that brings emotions into the process of design and evaluation. Such …

In order to recreate viable and human-like conversational responses, the artificial entity, ie,
an embodied conversational agent, must express correlated speech (verbal) and gestures …

The use of computer-generated characters (avatars) is increasingly being used to study
emotion and social cognition in humans, as it offers a highly controllable, yet potentially …

Artificial intelligence (AI) research on video games primarily focused on the imitation of
human-like behavior during the past few years. Moreover, to increase the perceived worth of …

In this paper we discuss building large scale virtual reality reconstructions of historical
heritage sites and populating it with crowds of virtual agents. Such agents are capable of …