Author: Dr. Kristopher J Blom
The Virtual Orator – a sister blog
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][minti_headline size=”fontsize-xl” color=”#1cbac8″ weight=”fontweight-600″ transform=”transform-uppercase” align=”align-left”]Our Sister blog ‘The Virtual Orator’ is now online[/minti_headline][vc_column_text]Our flagship product, Virtual Orator, now has a blog of its own. This blog will continue to look at all things Virtual Humans with a focus on helping people. The new blog, “The Virtual Orator” will focus on one case, public…
Virtual Orator Announcement
[vc_row][vc_column][minti_headline type=”h2″ size=”fontsize-l” weight=”fontweight-400″]We are pleased to announce our newest product, Virtual Orator.[/minti_headline][vc_column_text]Virtual Orator is set to be the first technological revolution in public speaking since the release of Powerpoint. It will change how we train public speaking skills. It removes most of the excuses we all come up with on why we don’t practice…
WebSummit Bound
[vc_row][vc_column][minti_headline type=”h1″ font=”font-inherit” size=”fontsize-l” weight=”fontweight-300″ lineheight=”lh-inherit” transform=”transform-uppercase” align=”align-center” margin=”0 0 20px 0″] Virtual Human Technologies selected to WebSummit Alpha Program [/minti_headline][minti_spacer height=”40″][vc_column_text]Virtual Human Technologies has been selected to take part in the ‘Alpha’ program at the WebSummit conference in Dublin Ireland. This is great news for us, but also for everyone interested in Virtual Humans.…
Virtual Confederates product line launches
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are pleased to announce the launch of our inaugural product line: the Virtual Confederate line of applications. The Virtual Confederate line is targeted to the scientific community. We have trained our Virtual Humans to play roles in experiments that require additional people controlled by the investigator, i.e. to work as confederates. The initial applications…
Psychoinformatics 2015
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I’m am currently at a new conference called ‘Psychoinformatics: where Psychology meets Informatics‘. The conference is about the interfaces between Psychology and Computer Science. This is very much the space I have been working in for the last number of years, so it should be interesting. I’m giving four talks during the course of the…
Virtual Confederates (part 2)
In part 1 of this series we introduce the idea of using Virtual Humans as confederates in psychology studies. We looked at how Virtual Confederates can address many of the difficulties in using human confederates. What we have not yet addressed is all of the extra benefits that Virtual Confederates bring with them. In this…
Virtual Confederates (part 1)
CONFEDERATE noun. An assistant to the experimenter who takes on the role of a participant but also whose actions are practiced before the experiment ensues. (http://psychologydictionary.org) To put this into other terms, this is an accomplice of the experimenter, acting a specific role. They help create the situation, in which the reactions/actions of the study…
The Virtual Human
Under the right conditions avatars become more than just the pixels of which they are made. They are Virtual Humans… Avatars are computer generated puppets. Unlike their physical puppet counterparts, avatars only exist as pixels on a screen. Avatars representation a being, just as a puppet, though often notably more realistic in appearance. Since they…