Virtual Blindness - A Choice Blindness Experiment with a Virtual Experimenter

A virtual speaker in noisy classroom conditions: supporting or disrupting children’s listening comprehension?

“…Technological advancements have enabled computers to both produce speech and present a speaker visually. The terms Virtual Humans, Virtual Agents, and Embodied Conversational Agents [10] have been used to describe such implementations and their potential value in educational or instructional applications have been pointed out [11], as well as their importance as research tools [12,13]. Adults' speech recognition has been found to be facilitated with digitally rendered faces [14][15][16][17].…”