Category: Virtual Confederates
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…