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Title | ||
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Effects of virtual human animation on emotion contagion in simulated inter-personal experiences. |
Abstract | ||
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We empirically examined the impact of virtual human animation on the emotional responses of participants in a medical virtual reality system for education in the signs and symptoms of patient deterioration. Participants were presented with one of two virtual human conditions in a between-subjects experiment, static (non-animated) and dynamic (animated). Our objective measures included the use of psycho-physical Electro Dermal Activity (EDA) sensors, and subjective measures inspired by social psychology research included the Differential Emotions Survey (DES IV) and Positive and Negative Affect Survey (PANAS). We analyzed the quantitative and qualitative measures associated with participants’ emotional state at four distinct time-steps in the simulated interpersonal experience as the virtual patient’s medical condition deteriorated. Results suggest that participants in the dynamic condition with animations exhibited a higher sense of co-presence and greater emotional response as compared to participants in the static condition, corresponding to the deterioration in the medical condition of the virtual patient. Negative affect of participants in the dynamic condition increased at a higher rate than for participants in the static condition. The virtual human animations elicited a stronger response in negative emotions such as anguish, fear, and anger as the virtual patient’s medical condition worsened. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1109/TVCG.2014.19 | IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
emotion contagion,virtual humans/digital characters,virtual reality,emotional response,differential emotions survey,medical condition,virtual patient,computer animation,user studies,virtual human conditions,positive and negative affect survey,simulated interpersonal experiences,eda sensors,des iv,patient deterioration,psycho physical electro dermal activity,virtual human animation effects,emotional state,emotion recognition,medicine,behavioural sciences computing,biomedical education,virtual patient medical condition,medical virtual reality system,simulated inter-personal experiences,panas,dynamic condition,virtual human animation,static condition,emotional responses,social psychology research,virtual human condition,computer aided instruction,simulation and behavior,sensors,animation | Computer vision,Interpersonal communication,Virtual reality,Computer science,Virtual patient,Artificial intelligence,Anger,Animation,Virtual actor,Computer animation,Affect (psychology) | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
20 | 4 | 1941-0506 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
13 | 0.87 | 17 |
Authors | ||
10 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yanxiang Wu | 1 | 13 | 1.20 |
| Sabarish V. Babu | 2 | 174 | 25.34 |
| Rowan Armstrong | 3 | 13 | 1.54 |
| Jeffrey W. Bertrand | 4 | 64 | 9.70 |
| Jun Luo | 5 | 16 | 1.28 |
| Tania Roy | 6 | 29 | 2.60 |
| Shaundra Bryant Daily | 7 | 43 | 5.31 |
| Lauren Cairco Dukes | 8 | 30 | 7.51 |
| Larry F Hodges | 9 | 14 | 2.72 |
| Tracy Fasolino | 10 | 28 | 2.23 |