Listening and Mirroring: The Effects of Verbal Attunement and Behavioral Mimicry on Social and Empathic Perceptions of Embodied AI Agents in VR
As embodied agents take on increasingly social and relational roles in VR, visual realism and embodiment alone may be insufficient; users must also perceive these agents as emotionally attuned, supportive, and humanlike. Prior work suggests that verbal attunement and nonverbal mimicry can each improve users'social eval...
Nathalia Gomez, Haig Shamlian, Omar A. Khan et al.
· 0 citations