Gender/ing guides how we view ourselves, the world around us, and each other—including
non-humans. Critical voices have raised the alarm about stereotyped gendering in the …

Embodied agents, ie, computer-controlled characters, have proven useful for various
applications across a multitude of display setups and modalities. While most traditional work …

This study investigated whether the coughing behaviors of virtual agents encourage
infection avoidance behavior, ie, distancing behaviors. We hypothesized that the changes in …

Related research has shown that collaborating with Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs)
embodied in Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) can improve task performance …

While most research has focused on one-on-one interactions, Socially Interactive Agents
(SIAs) for multiparty interaction have received increasingly more atten tion in the past years …

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 ability to perceive emotional states is a critical part of social interactions, shaping how
people understand and respond to each other. In face-to-face communication, people …

Non-verbal cues like locomotion and posture influence users' perceptions of Mixed Reality
Agents (MiRAs). While Electroencephalography (EEG) captures cognitive responses, the …

When people use agent characters to travel through different spaces (such as virtual scenes
and real scenes, or different game spaces), it is important to reasonably position the …

This paper introduces the Pepper Python Unity Toolkit (PePUT), a toolkit for controlling and
using the social robot Pepper via Unity and Python. As toolkit components, we present …