This work investigates how personality expression and embodiment affect personality
perception and learning in educational conversational agents. We extend an existing …

Using motion capture to enhance the realism of social interaction in virtual reality (VR) is
growing in popularity. However, the impact of different levels of avatar expressiveness on …

Engaging embodied conversational agents need to generate expressive behavior in order
to be believable in socializing interactions. We present a system that can generate …

The appearance of virtual humans (avatars and agents) has been widely explored in
immersive environments. However, virtual humans' movements and associated sounds in …

The uncanny valley describes the negative evaluation of near humanlike artificial entities.
Previous research with synthetic and real voices failed to find an uncanny valley of voices …

Embodied conversational agents and social robots need to be able to generate
spontaneous behavior in order to be believable in social interactions. We present a system …

The successful portrayal of personality in digital characters improves communication and
immersion. Current research focuses on expressing personality through modifying …

We know that a voice that matches the appearance of a virtual character can positively
impact how people interact with that character. However, although virtual characters and the …

In this paper, we investigate the perceived personalities of face swaps and how they relate
to the personalities of the real people used to create the synthetic individuals' appearance …

Environment plays an important role in non-verbal communication for human-virtual agent
interaction. Existing research explores the influence of an agent's appearance and attributes …