Individualized Virtual Humans for Social Skills Training
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Virtual humans are now being used as role players for a variety of domains that involve social skills. In this paper, we discuss how such systems can provide individualized practice through dynamically adjusting the behaviors of virtual humans to meet specific learner needs.
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Catherine Zanbaka Research Statement
My primary research interest areas are human computer interaction, virtual humans, virtual environments, and 3D user interaction. In particular, I am interested in the comparison of human-human interaction to human-virtual human interaction in the context of social psychology. I have conducted experiments which have shown that some of the social influence theories from human-human interactions ...
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