The ability to speak proficiently in public is essential for many professions and in everyday life. Public speaking skills are difficult to master and require extensive training. Recent developments in technology enable new approaches for public …
We have developed an interactive virtual audience platform for public speaking training. Users' public speaking behavior is automatically analyzed using multimodal sensors, and multimodal feedback is produced by virtual characters and generic visual …
Good public speaking skills convey strong and effective communication, which is critical in many professions and used in everyday life. The ability to speak publicly requires a lot of training and practice. Recent technological developments enable …
The use of virtual agents in social coaching has increased rapidly in the last decade. In social coaching, the virtual agent should be able to express different social attitudes to train the user in different situations than can occur in real life. …
We have developed an interactive virtual audience platform for public speaking training. Users' public speaking behavior is automatically analyzed using audiovisual sensors. The virtual characters display indirect feedback depending on user's …
This paper presents a model of social attitudes for reasoning about the appropriate attitude to express during an interaction. It combines a theoretical approach with a study of a corpus of human-to-human interactions.
The use of virtual agents in social coaching has increased rapidly in the last decade. In order to train the user in different situations than can occur in real life, the virtual agent should be able to express different social attitudes. In this …
The TARDIS project aims to build a scenario-based serious-game simulation platform for NEETs and job-inclusion associations that supports social training and coaching in the context of job interviews. This paper presents the general architecture of …