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Design and Usability of Consumer Health Tech and Home Monitoring Devices (326) Chatbots and Conversational Agents (740) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1911) Human Factors and Usability Case Studies (1005) Methods in Human Factors Research (61) Usability Evaluation Case Studies (259) Crowdsourcing and Mechanical Turks (103)

Published on in Vol 9, No 1 (2022): Jan-Mar

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/35358, first published .
The Acceptability of Virtual Characters as Social Skills Trainers: Usability Study

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

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

Authors of this article:

Hiroki Tanaka1 Author Orcid Image ;   Satoshi Nakamura2 Author Orcid Image
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Journals

  1. Pakkasjärvi N, Luthra T, Anand S. Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Learning. Surgeries 2023;4(1):86 View
  2. Tanaka H, Saga T, Iwauchi K, Honda M, Morimoto T, Matsuda Y, Uratani M, Okazaki K, Nakamura S. The Validation of Automated Social Skills Training in Members of the General Population Over 4 Weeks: Comparative Study. JMIR Formative Research 2023;7:e44857 View
  3. Rasouli S, Ghafurian M, Nilsen E, Dautenhahn K. University Students’ Opinions on Using Intelligent Agents to Cope with Stress and Anxiety in Social Situations. Computers in Human Behavior 2024;153:108072 View
  4. Shidara K, Tanaka H, Adachi H, Kanayama D, Kudo T, Nakamura S. Adapting the Number of Questions Based on Detected Psychological Distress for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With an Embodied Conversational Agent: Comparative Study. JMIR Formative Research 2024;8:e50056 View
  5. Wang N, Liu Z, Yang H, Ren Z, Xie W. “Treat Me as Your Friend, Not a Virtual Being”: The Impact of Intelligent Virtual Agent’s Self-Disclosure of Different Emotions on Children’s Friendship. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 2024:1 View
  6. Yoneyama J, Fujimoto Y, Okazaki K, Sawabe T, Kanbara M, Kato H. Augmented conversations: AR face filters for facilitating comfortable in-person interactions. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 2025;19(1):57 View
  7. Immel D, Hilpert B, Schwarz P, Hein A, Gebhard P, Barton S, Hurlemann R. Patients’ and Health Care Professionals’ Expectations of Virtual Therapeutic Agents in Outpatient Aftercare: Qualitative Survey Study. JMIR Formative Research 2025;9:e59527 View
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  9. Tanaka H, Lisitsyna A. Web-based multimodal learning system to develop social communication skills. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 2025;19(3):271 View
  10. Choi M, Cui D, Guo S, Kao D, Mousas C. Let's Do It My Way: Effects of Personality and Age of Virtual Characters. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2025;31(11):9537 View

Books/Policy Documents

  1. Xu Z, Gong S, Tang J, Liang L, Huang Y, Li H, Huang S. Computer Vision – ECCV 2024. View
  2. Tanaka H, Nakamura S. Multimodal Interaction Technologies for Training Affective Social Skills. View
  3. Honda M, Okazaki K, Tanaka H. Multimodal Interaction Technologies for Training Affective Social Skills. View

Conference Proceedings

  1. Tanaka H, Saga T, Iwauchi K, Nakamura S. 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). Acceptability and Trustworthiness of Virtual Agents by Effects of Theory of Mind and Social Skills Training View
  2. Yu H, Qu Z, Yu Q, Chen J, Jiang Z, Chen Z, Zhang S, Xu J, Wu F, Lv C, Yu G. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia. GaussianTalker: Speaker-specific Talking Head Synthesis via 3D Gaussian Splatting View
  3. Khan F, Wu Y, Dray J, Hemsley B, Kocaballi A. Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Conversational Agents to Support People with Communication Disability: A Co-design Study with Speech Pathologists View
  4. Deng K, Zheng D, Xie J, Wang J, Xie W, Shen L, Song S. ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). DEGSTalk: Decomposed Per-Embedding Gaussian Fields for Hair-Preserving Talking Face Synthesis View
  5. Feng G, Zhang Y, Li Y, Jin S, Miao Q. ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). Gaussian-Face: Talking Head Generation with Hybrid Density via 3D Gaussian Splatting View
  6. Chae-Yeon L, Hyun-Bin O, EunGi H, Sung-Bin K, Nam S, Oh T. 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Perceptually Accurate 3D Talking Head Generation: New Definitions, Speech-Mesh Representation, and Evaluation Metrics View