Anthropomorphic virtual agents can serve as powerful technological mediators to impact
motivational outcomes such as self-efficacy and attitude change. Such anthropomorphic …

In the social psychology literature, crowds are classified as audiences and mobs. Audiences
are passive crowds, whereas mobs are active crowds with emotional, irrational and …

Factors that may affect how people become attracted to virtual characters were explored in
an online survey of players of a recent video role-playing game. Seventy-four participants …

In the past 10 years, how to visualize human emotions in communication has become an
important topic. For providing personalized customer service for enterprises from self …

In virtual learning environment, both personality and emotional features of animated
pedagogical agents (APAs) may influence learning. To investigate this question, we …

A great number of computational models of emotions (CMEs) have been developed to be
included in, or as part of, cognitive agent architectures. These computational models have …

Previous research illustrates that people can be influenced by the emotional displays of
computer‐generated agents. What is less clear is if these influences arise from cognitive or …

Emotions convey significant information through means of natural language analysis,
embodiment, and emotional signing. Machines equipped with the ability to experience and …

Teaching and learning paradigms have attracted increased attention especially in the last
decade. Immense developments of different ICT technologies and services have paved the …

The human ability to express and recognize emotions plays an important role in face-to-face
communication, and as technology advances it will be increasingly important for computer …