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This text discusses the use of virtual humans in various fields, including computer games, virtual environments, medical diagnosis, and education. It also discusses the use of virtual humans for tasks such as guiding experiments and providing tactical questioning and interrogation. The text also mentions the use of virtual humans in the remediation of social cognition deficits and the exploration of attack as a concept. The text also mentions the use of virtual humans in extended reality scenarios and the potential for virtual humans to improve safety, quality, and human-centered design in operating tasks. The text also mentions the potential for virtual humans to provide an alternative to pictures and videos. The text also discusses the use of virtual humans to support physical well-being and to enable the transfer of learning by observation and imitation of experts.
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Achieving affective human–virtual agent communication by enabling virtual agents to imitate positive expressions
N Takashi, S Hiroki, A Yasuhiro… – Scientific Reports …, 2020 – search.proquest.com
Page 1. 1 Scientific RepoRtS | (2020) 10:5977 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62870- 7 www.nature.com/scientificreports Achieving affective human–virtual agent communication by enabling virtual agents to imitate positive expressions …
A New Human Anatomy Teaching Mode Combining Virtual Anatomy System and Dissection to Promote Active Learning and Improve Learning Efficiency.
N Chen, B Fang, W Tan, Y Li, N Luo, J Liu, X Zhang… – 2020 – researchsquare.com
… However, through vivid 3D interactive operation, it is a simple task to transform and rotate the virtual human organs in three-dimensional virtual space [25, 26] (Table2 Q1, 2). The nal test scores obtained by students in the CVA group supported this …
A Framework for Realizing Industrial Human-Robot Collaboration through Virtual Simulation
N Land, A Syberfeldt, T Almgren, J Vallhagen – Procedia CIRP, 2020 – Elsevier
… workplace generation. Procedia CIRP. 2016;44:228-32. [9] Land N, Syberfeldt A, Almgren T, Vallhagen J. Virtual Human-Robot Collaboration: The Industry’s Perspective on Potential Applications and Benefits. 17th ICMR. 2019:161 …
The physical-virtual patient simulator: a physical human form with virtual appearance and behavior
S Daher, J Hochreiter, R Schubert… – Simulation in …, 2020 – journals.lww.com
Introduction We introduce a new type of patient simulator referred to as the Physical-Virtual Pati.
Interactions Between Humans, Virtual Agent Characters and Virtual Avatars
T Griffith – 2020 – stars.library.ucf.edu
… This tool includes a Human Intelligence (HUMINT) component that uses life-like avatars and speech recognition to support tactical questioning, interrogation, screening, and the use of an interpreter through free-flowing conversations with virtual humans (Blinde, 2016) …
Emotional Valence Recognition on Virtual, Robotic, and Human Faces: a Comparative Study
L Cerda, P Graziani, J Del-Monte – Journal of Technology in Behavioral …, 2020 – Springer
With the advent of new technologies in everyday life, leisure, or therapy, we will increasingly interact with a non-human virtual character. Understanding.
Virtual Consumption, Sustainability and Human Well-Being
KR Pike, CT DesRoches – Environmental Values, 2020 – ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. ? = username $REMOTE_ASSR = IP address Tue, 05 May 2020 07:06:36 = Date & Time Environmental Values 29 (3), June 2020: 361–378. Submitted 5 March 2019; accepted 28 June 2019; fast-track 7 September 2019 © 2019 The White Horse Press …
Analyzing Human-Building Interactions in Virtual Environments Using Crowd Simulations
M Usman – 2020 – yorkspace.library.yorku.ca
Page 1. ANALYZING HUMAN–BUILDING INTERACTIONS IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS USING CROWD SIMULATIONS MUHAMMAD USMAN A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES …
Towards real world neuroscience: the impact of virtual and augmented reality techniques on the study of human performance and sense of presence.
DM Marucci – iris.uniroma1.it
Page 1. Department of Psychology International Doctor of Philosophy course in Psychology and Social Neuroscience XXXII cycle Towards real world neuroscience: the impact of virtual and augmented reality techniques on the study of human performance and sense of …