A dancing virtual agent to evoke human emotions

Deborah Richards; Jon Cedric Roxas; Ayse Bilgin; Nader Hanna

A dancing virtual agent to evoke human emotions

Deborah Richards, Jon Cedric Roxas, Ayse Bilgin, Nader Hanna

School of Computing

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Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study investigating the impact of dancing IVAs on human emotions. The results showed that watching a dancing IVA depicting different emotions significantly influenced human emotions. Additionally, the participant's anger, sadness and happiness were significantly dependent on which dancing character's emotion they watched. Moreover, the results of the study showed that while most of the participants were able to recognize the emotions depicted by the dancing IVA, correct recognition of the dancing IVAs' emotions was not necessary to have the intended influence on human emotions. These results suggest that some of the benefits associated with dancing, such as dance therapy, could be achieved just by watching an IVA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1701-1702
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781450334136
Publication status	Published - May 2015
Event	14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS - 2015 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 4 May 2015 → 8 May 2015

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Other	14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS - 2015
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Istanbul
Period	4/05/15 → 8/05/15

Keywords

intelligent virtual agents
emotion
dancing

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Richards, D, Roxas, JC, Bilgin, A & Hanna, N 2015, A dancing virtual agent to evoke human emotions. in Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 1701-1702, 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS - 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, 4/05/15.

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