Training public speaking with virtual social interactions: effectiveness of real-time feedback and delayed feedback

Social signal processing and virtual social interaction technologies have allowed the creation of skills training applications, initial studies shown that such solutions can lead to positive outcomes could complement traditional teaching methods by providing cheap, accessible, safe tools for skills. However, these evaluated systems as a whole it is unclear what extent which components contributed outcomes. In this paper, we describe an experimental study where compared relative efficacy real-time interactive feedback after-action in context public speaking application. We observed both provide benefits overall training: made experience more immersive improved participants’ motivation using system, while led when contained personalized elements. Taken combination, results confirm interactions are contributing systems’ efficiency. Additionally, several individual factors, here subjects’ level anxiety, personality tendency immersion significantly influenced experience. This finding suggests benefit from being tailored particular circumstances.