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Affective Arm and Hand Gestures in Animated Pedagogical Agents

Published in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 2023

This thesis investigates affective arm and hand gestures for animated pedagogical agents and examines how users perceive emotion, arousal, and valence.

Recommended citation: Mukanova, M. (2023). Affective Arm and Hand Gestures in Animated Pedagogical Agents. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
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Effects of Body Type and Voice Pitch on Perceived Audio-Visual Correspondence and Believability of Virtual Characters

Published in ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023, 2023

This paper examines how virtual character body type and voice pitch influence perceived audio-visual correspondence and believability.

Recommended citation: Lam, L., Choi, M., Mukanova, M., Hauser, K., Zhao, F., Mayer, R., Mousas, C., & Adamo-Villani, N. (2023). Effects of body type and voice pitch on perceived audio-visual correspondence and believability of virtual characters. ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023, Article 3, 11 pages.
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Recognizing and Relating to the Race/Ethnicity and Gender of Animated Pedagogical Agents

Published in Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024

This journal article examines how learners recognize and relate to the race/ethnicity and gender of animated pedagogical agents.

Recommended citation: Zhao, F., Mayer, R. E., Adamo-Villani, N., Mousas, C., Choi, M., Lam, L., Mukanova, M., & Hauser, K. (2024). Recognizing and relating to the race/ethnicity and gender of animated pedagogical agents. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 62(3), 455–481.
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Animated Pedagogical Agents Performing Affective Gestures Extracted from the GEMEP Dataset: Can People Recognize Their Emotions?

Published in ArtsIT 2023, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 565, 2024

This paper examines whether people can recognize emotions expressed through affective gestures performed by animated pedagogical agents.

Recommended citation: Mukanova, M., Adamo-Villani, N., Mousas, C., Zhao, F., Choi, M., Lam, L., & Hauser, K. (2024). Animated Pedagogical Agents Performing Affective Gestures Extracted from the GEMEP Dataset: Can People Recognize Their Emotions? In A. L. Brooks (Ed.), ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation. ArtsIT 2023, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 565. Springer, Cham.
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Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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