Mock (simulated) interviews can be used as a safe context for trainee interviewers to learn
and practice questioning skills. When mock interviews are designed to reflect the body of …

Research over the past four decades has built a convincing case that co‐speech hand
gestures play a powerful role in human cognition. However, this recent focus on the …

This study presents a systematic literature search and narrative meta-review of the current
state of research on conversational agents (CAs), including embodied CAs, chatbots, and …

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled virtual humans have been widely used in
various fields in our everyday lives, such as for museum exhibitions and as information …

Clinician-patient communication is essential to successful care and treatment. However,
health training programs do not provide sufficient clinical exposure to practice …

Related research has shown that collaborating with Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs)
embodied in Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) can improve task performance …

During social interactions, people often unintentionally mimic each other's behaviors, which
can occur at the motor level (eg smiles or head movements), and the autonomic level (eg …

Digital agents with human-like characteristics have become ubiquitous in our society and
are increasingly relevant in commercial applications. While some of them closely resemble …

Socially Interactive Agents (SIAs) offer users with interactive face-to-face conversations.
They can take the role of a speaker and communicate verbally and nonverbally their …

An effective way to reduce emotional distress is by sharing negative emotions with others.
This is why counseling with a virtual counselor is an emerging methodology, where the …