Listening and Mirroring: The Effects of Verbal Attunement and Behavioral Mimicry on Social and Empathic Perceptions of Embodied AI Agents in VR
An embodied AI counselor that combines conversational AI with real-time facial-expression and posture mimicry, while producing either verbally attuned or neutral responses shows that verbal attunement was the most reliable driver of perceived empathy and underscores the need to consider how verbal and nonverbal behavio...
Nathalia Gomez, Haig Shamlian, Omar A. Khan et al.
· 0 citations