Research on Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is booming, which has led
to an emerging body of literature in their intersection. However, the main topics in this …

Pedestrian and evacuation dynamics provide valuable insights into the understanding of
human collective motion and have important implications for architectural design, safety …

After the outbreak of COVID-19, creating believable social virtual environments to substitute
face-to-face interactions became vital. Social presence is essential for creating realistic and …

Crowd emotional contagion is affected by physical cyberspace and virtual cyberspace at the
same time. In addition, the individual personality also plays an important role in crowd …

We present a novel, real-time algorithm, EVA, for generating virtual agents with various
perceived emotions. Our approach is based on using Expressive Features of gaze and gait …

We present a new approach for improving the friendliness and warmth of a virtual agent in
an AR environment by generating appropriate movement characteristics. Our algorithm is …

The objective of this work is to perform a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) on works that
deal with the combined use of Multi-agent Systems (MAS) and Virtual Reality (VR). 83 …

The one-on-one human–robot interaction has expanded to the group level; robot groups are
increasingly exerting psychosocial implications on human beings. However, how people …

Multi-agent systems integrate a great variety of artificial intelligence techniques from different
fields, these systems have made it possible to create intelligent systems more efficiently. On …

Modeling the interactions between users and social groups of virtual agents (VAs) is vital in
many virtual-reality-based applications. However, only little research on group encounters …