Virtual World as an Interactive Safety Training Platform

An interactive virtual audience platform for public speaking training

We have developed an interactive virtual audience platform for public speaking training. Users’ public speaking behavior is automatically analyzed using audiovisual sensors. The virtual characters display indirect feedback depending on user’s behavior descriptors correlated with public speaking performance. We used the system to collect a dataset of public speaking performances in different tra...

Virtual Space as a Platform for Student Research Practices

Online learning is becoming an increasingly popular request. Many universities are moving fully or partially to this form of study. In the article, the authors considered what is virtual space, what are its criteria, as well as applicability for teaching students and passing research practices. Based on an analysis of existing virtual spaces (platforms), an experiment was conducted. The study s...

An Interactive Virtual Reality Platform for Studying Embodied Social Interaction

We present an interactive virtual reality platform for studying the role of embodied social interaction in the context of language learning. The virtual environment consists of virtual objects, a virtual table, and most importantly, a set of virtual students with different social-cognitive skills. Real users are asked to serve as language teachers and teach virtual learners object names. They c...

An Experimental Platform for Customized Virtual Cinematography in Interactive Storytelling

Using the World-Wide Web as a Platform for an Interactive Experiment