Conversations with a virtual human: Synthetic emotions and human responses

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Highlights：

• We investigated the human responses to the synthetic emotions of a virtual human.

• Synthetic emotions of a virtual human can affect human emotions.

• Synthetic emotions in speaking phase have more effect than in listening phase.

• Humans with less speaking confidence experience a conversation as less positive.

• Inconsistency emotion of a virtual human has a negative effect on the conversation.

摘要

•We investigated the human responses to the synthetic emotions of a virtual human.•Synthetic emotions of a virtual human can affect human emotions.•Synthetic emotions in speaking phase have more effect than in listening phase.•Humans with less speaking confidence experience a conversation as less positive.•Inconsistency emotion of a virtual human has a negative effect on the conversation.

论文关键词：Virtual reality,Virtual human,Emotion,Dialogue experience,Social anxiety

论文评审过程：Available online 21 February 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.01.033