Social facilitation has been researched for decades, but in the face of the development of
virtual reality technology, new questions arise regarding the possibility of its occurrence in …

GlossoVR is a virtual reality (VR) application that combines training in public speaking in
front of a virtual audience and in voice emission in relaxation exercises. It is accompanied by …

Robots are becoming more ubiquitous in our daily lives including in our offices and homes.
As such, it is necessary to understand whether and how robotic presence affects us both …

In this paper, we explore the development and assessment of a virtual reality (VR) system
designed to enhance public speaking and vocal skills among professional and non …

Online discussion forums are potentially invaluable for developing learners' higher order
thinking skills through the power of writing and reflection in quality online learning spaces. In …

Prior research has shown that individuals tend to make norm-based (deontological) moral
choices more frequently when observed by real humans. Our aim in this study was to …

Better (social facilitation) or worse (social inhibition) performance in a task while being
observed has repeatedly been demonstrated with real human observers, yet it has not been …

This work-in-progress paper deals with pretesting of the virtual characters in VR
psychological experiments. To make pretesting easier, the tool based on the combination of …

Human–robot collaborations that operate in shared spaces are anticipated to become
increasingly common in coming years. Decades of social psychological research have …

One of the major challenges in the field of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) at
high schools in Japan is that English classrooms tend to lack learning activities to develop …