Design and evaluation of simulated reflective thoughts in virtual reality exposure training

Social skills are often an integral part of functioning in modern society, and therefore, in the past decades, social skills training has received considerable research attraction. Various physical and digital approaches have been developed to improve people’s performance in social interaction. Among these approaches, social skills training...

Head-tracked off-axis perspective projection improves gaze readability of 3D virtual avatars

Virtual avatars have been employed in many contexts, from simple conversational agents to communicating the internal state and intentions of large robots when interacting with humans. Rarely, however, are they employed in scenarios which require non-verbal communication of spatial information or dynamic interaction from a variety of perspectives...