Improvement of Public Speaking Skills using Virtual Reality: Development of a Training System

peer reviewedThe Public Speaking project is a Virtual Reality (VR) training system dedicated to the improvement of public speaking skills. It provides users with the opportunity to rehearse their speech in a realistic virtual environment which displays an interactive audience. The experience is customized based on the chosen training scenario, which is determined by the room, participant’s role, audience behaviors, and timer. A companion website provides comprehensive feedback reports on speakers’ performance, based on their verbal and nonverbal behavior, as well as replay functionalities. In addition to its educational objective, this system is used as a tool to advance research into the development of effective public speaking training environments

Development and evaluation of Virtual Reality environments for public speaking training

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A Systematic Review on the Socio-affective Perception of IVAs' Multi-modal behaviour

International audienceThe multimodal behaviour of IVAs may convey different socioaffective dimensions, such as emotions, personality, or social capabilities. Several research works show that factors may impact the perception of the IVA’s behaviour. This paper proposes a systematic review, based on the PRISMA method, to investigate how the multimodal behaviour of IVAs is perceived with respect to socio-affective dimensions. To compare the results of different research works, a socio-emotional framework is proposed, considering the dimensions commonly employed in the studies. The conducted analysis of a wide array of studies ensures a comprehensive and transparent review, providing guidelines on the design of socio-affective IVA