Contextual recognition of head gestures
ICMI '05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
Creating Rapport with Virtual Agents
IVA '07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
IVA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Perception markup language: towards a standardized representation of perceived nonverbal behaviors
IVA'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
The eHealth Arena and Online Virtual Worlds: A New Paradigm for Internet Delivered Health Care
International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations
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This study explores the types of nonverbal behavior exhibited by socially anxious users over the course of an interview with virtual agent counselors that talked about themselves. The counselors provided self-disclosure using human back stories or computer back stories. The video data was collected from a previous study. We defined nine types of nonverbal behavior to investigate the associations between the types of nonverbal behavior and users' anxiety levels. The results of preliminary data analysis show that five features out of the nine features are positively correlated with different levels of users' anxiety in the "computer back stories" condition. These five types of nonverbal behavior are gaze aversion, moving arms and hands, constant rocking, shaking a head, and fidgeting arms and hands. There are no significant relationships between the kinds of nonverbal behavior and users' anxiety levels in the "human back stories" condition.