Racing Heart and Sweaty Palms: What Influences Users' Self-Assessments and Physiological Signals When Interacting With Virtual Audiences?

Abstract

In psychotherapy, virtual audiences have been shown to promote successful outcomes when used to help treating public speakinganxiety. Additionally, early experiments have shown its potential to helpimprove public speaking ability. However, it is still unclear to what extent certain factors, such as audience non-verbal behaviors, impact userswhen interacting with a virtual audience. In this paper, we design an experimental study to investigate users self-assessments and physiologicalstates when interacting with a virtual audience. Our results showed thatvirtual audience behaviors did not influence participants self-assessmentsor physiological responses, which were instead predominantly determinedby participants prior anxiety levels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 26, 2017
Accession Number
AD1171445

Entities

People

  • Mathieu Chollet
  • Stefan Scherer
  • Talie Massachi

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Clinical Trials
  • Computational Science
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Heart Rate
  • Human Supervisory Control
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Psychotherapy
  • Questionnaires
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Trajectories
  • Virtual Reality

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.