Paper Info
Title
Teaching Communication Skills with Virtual Humans
Abstract
At the University of Florida (UF), a research team has worked on applying virtual humans as partners in interpersonal communication scenarios. The goal: teach communication skills using virtual humans. The simulation of an interaction between people to facilitate teaching, training, and testing of communication skills would be a powerful new application of VR. The author's approach is to employ natural methods of interaction with the virtual human, striving to create an experience similar to two (initially) people talking. By using a natural interface, we aim to have the student interact with DIANA naturally, and thus allow the training of interviewing and communication skills.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/MCG.2006.68
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
communication skills,teaching,virtual reality,virtual human
Computer aided instruction,Interpersonal communication,Virtual reality,Biomedical education,Communication skills,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Virtual actor,Biomedical communication,Biomedical computing,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
26
3
0272-1716
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
24
1.15
2
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Lok126625.24