Expressive avatars in psychological intervention and therapy

Ana Paula Cláudio; Maria Beatriz Carmo; Augusta Gaspar; Renato Teixeira

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-7371-5.ch002

Expressive avatars in psychological intervention and therapy

Ana Paula Cláudio^*, Maria Beatriz Carmo, Augusta Gaspar, Renato Teixeira

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Abstract

A wide range of applications for virtual humans can be envisaged for the needs of both research and intervention in Psychology. This chapter describes the development and preliminary testing of an interactive virtual reality application "Virtual Spectators" - whereby virtual humans with expressive behaviour modelled on the basis of field research in human facial expression in real emotion contexts can be configured to interact with people in an interview or jury. We discuss the possibilities of this application in cognitive behavioural therapy using virtual reality and in nonverbal behaviour.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interface support for creativity, productivity, and expression in computer graphics
Editors	Anna Ursyn
Publisher	IGI Global Publishing
Pages	27-48
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	9781522573722
ISBN (Print)	9781522573715, 9781522587484
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7371-5.ch002
Publication status	Published - 5 Oct 2018

Keywords

Avatars
Virtual reality
Virtual Reality in Exposure Therapy (VRET)
Facial expression
Psychotherapy

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