The field of intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) has evolved immensely over the past 15 years,
introducing new application opportunities in areas such as training, health care, and virtual …

MACH--My Automated Conversation coacH--is a novel system that provides ubiquitous
access to social skills training. The system includes a virtual agent that reads facial …

Faces are critical in establishing the agency of social robots; however, building expressive
mechanical faces is costly and difficult. Instead, many robots built in recent years have faces …

Perception of facial identity and emotional expressions is fundamental to social interactions.
Recently, interest in age associated changes in the processing of faces has grown rapidly …

Healthcare simulators are learning environments that offer many training opportunities. The
integration of expressive virtual patients in these simulators encourages the exchanges and …

The exploration of how we react to the world and interact with it and each other remains one
of the greatest scientific challenges. Latest research trends in cognitive sciences argue that …

Virtual reality presents an extraordinary platform for multimodal communication. Haptic
technologies have been shown to provide an important contribution to this by facilitating co …

As technology advances, robots and virtual agents will be introduced into the home and
healthcare settings to assist individuals, both young and old, with everyday living tasks …

It has been shown that humans are sensitive to the portrayal of emotions for virtual
characters. However, previous work in this area has often examined this sensitivity using …

Emotions and their expressions by virtual characters will play a key role in future affective
human–machine interfaces. Recent advances in the psychology of emotions and recent …