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Visual Similarity for Socially Interactive Agents that Support Self-Awareness

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Self-awareness is a critical factor in social interaction. Teachers being aware of their own emotions and thoughts during class may enable reflection and behavioral change. While inducing self-awareness through mirrors or video is common in face-to-face training, it has been scarcely examined in digital training with virtual avatars. This paper examines the relationship between avatar visual similarity and inducing self-awareness in digital training environments. We developed a theory-based methodology to reliably manipulate perceptually relevant facial features of digital avatars based on human-human identification and emotional predisposition. Manipulating these features allows to create personalized versions of digital avatars with varying degrees of visual similarity.

Source: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

DOI: 10.1145/3570945.3607329

Authors: Claudio Alves da Silva, Bernhard Hilpert, Chirag Bhuvaneshwara, Patrick Gebhard, Fabrizio Nunnari, Dimitra Tsovaltzi

Institutions: Saarland University, Leiden University, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Universitas Brawijaya