Paper Info
Title
Virtual human personality masks: a human computation approach to modeling verbal personalities in virtual humans
Abstract
Modeling virtual humans that can exhibit realistic personalities is becoming increasingly important as virtual humans are being widely used for inter-personal skills education. We present Virtual Human Personality Masks, a system that combines human computation with the idea of using existing virtual humans to bootstrap the creation of other virtual humans to enable quick and easy generation of perceivable verbal personalities in virtual humans. To evaluate this system, we created high and low verbosity-level variants of a virtual patient with symptoms of depression and conducted a user study with medical students split between two groups, each interacting with one of the two variants of the virtual patient. The participants' perceived verbosity levels of the virtual patients indicated that not only did the virtual patients created using our system exhibit the intended personality in a perceivable manner, but also exhibited other related personality attributes in a manner that is consistent with the human personality theory analogs of verbosity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33197-8_15
IVA
Keywords
Field
DocType
human computation,realistic personality,virtual human,virtual patient,virtual human personality mask,human computation approach,related personality attribute,system exhibit,intended personality,human personality theory analog,perceivable verbal personality,existing virtual human
Social psychology,Computer science,Virtual patient,Personality theory,Human computation,Virtual actor,Personality psychology,Verbosity,Personality,Instructional simulation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vaishnavi Krishnan130.40
Adriana Foster230.73
Regis Kopper327218.94
Benjamin Lok426625.24