The Acceptability of Virtual Characters as Social Skills Trainers: Usability Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social skills training by human trainers is a well-established method to provide appropriate social interaction skills and strengthen social self-efficacy. In our previous work, we attempted to automate social skills training by developing a virtual agent that taught social skills through interaction. Previous research has not investigated the visual design of virtual agents for social skills training. Thus, we investigated the effect of virtual agent visual design on automated social skills training.

Objective

The 3 main purposes of this research were to investigate the effect of virtual agent appearance on automated social skills training, the relationship between acceptability and other measures (eg, likeability, realism, and familiarity), and the relationship

SUBMITTER: Tanaka H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006137 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature