An effective way to reduce emotional distress is by sharing negative emotions with others.
This is why counseling with a virtual counselor is an emerging methodology, where the …

Conversational agents mimic natural conversation to interact with users. Since the
effectiveness of interactions strongly depends on users' perception of agents, it is crucial to …

Introduction: Virtual human work regarding gender is widely based on binary gender despite
recent understandings of gender extending beyond female and male. Additionally, gender …

Medical virtual agents (VAs) hold great potential to support patients in achieving their health
goals, especially at times or in regions where the demand for physiological and …

Immersive virtual training environments are used in various domains. In this work we focus
on role-play training in virtual reality. In virtual role-play training conversations and …

Virtual humans (ie, embodied conversational agents) have the potential to support college
students' mental health, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics …

Language bias, both positive and negative, is a well-documented phenomenon exhibited
among human interlocutors. We examine whether this bias is exhibited toward virtual …

Abstract Virtual Humans (VHs) emerged over 50 years ago and have since experienced
notable advancements. Initially, developing and animating VHs posed significant …

The number of older adults who are homebound with depressive symptoms is increasing.
Due to their homebound status, they have limited access to trained mental healthcare …

For avatars-virtual bodys controlled by a human-an established visualization is to display
incomplete visualizations, eg only head and torso. However, the preference for the body …