Sympathy for the digital: Influence of synthetic voice on affinity, social presence and empathy for photorealistic virtual humans

Animated virtual characters to explore audio-visual speech in controlled and naturalistic environments

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Is Photorealism Important for Perception of Expressive Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality?

(2019) Katja Zibrek et al.   ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

In the shades of the uncanny valley: An experimental study of human–chatbot interaction

(2018) Leon Ciechanowski et al.   Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of eScience

The Effect of Realistic Appearance of Virtual Characters in Immersive Environments - Does the Character's Personality Play a Role?

(2018) Katja Zibrek et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Uncanny valley as a window into predictive processing in the social brain

(2018) Burcu A. Urgen et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Speech intelligibility of virtual humans

(2018) Annelies Devesse et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY

Virtual reality perspective-taking increases cognitive empathy for specific others

(2018) Austin van Loon et al.   PLoS One

A Psychophysical Experiment Regarding Components of the Plausibility Illusion

(2017) Richard Skarbez et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

Effects of Virtual Human Appearance Fidelity on Emotion Contagion in Affective Inter-Personal Simulations

(2016) Matias Volante et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS

To stylize or not to stylize?

(2015) Eduard Zell et al.   ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS

Render me real?

(2012) Rachel McDonnell et al.   ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS

The thing that should not be: predictive coding and the uncanny valley in perceiving human and humanoid robot actions

(2011) Ayse Pinar Saygin et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments

(2009) M. Slater   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES