Avatars-mediated video conference system for mediating the stress and anxiety of response time of a person with communication difficulties

People with stress and anxiety about response time (RT) management experience difficulties in talking others online, causing situational communication apprehension a fear of negative evaluation (FNE). Reducing RT will provide them ease talk. In this paper, to reduce management, we propose system involving teleoperated avatar agent its supporting interactive responses adaptive variations for video conferences, referred as the proposed system. The was compared another only an channel without responses, conventional video-based field experiments, human interviewer interviewee discussed paying taxes earning unethical money using systems; where measure (SCAM), FNE, sense being attended (SoBA) were measured indices. reduced significantly. A significant reduction SCAM FNE increase SoBA scores observed system, experiments.