Category: Virtual Human
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 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…