An Evaluation of Native versus Foreign Communicative Interactions on Users’ Behavioral Reactions towards Affective Virtual Crowds

This investigation compared the impact on the users’ non-verbal behaviors elicited by interacting with a crowd of emotional virtual humans (VHs) in native and non-native language settings. In a between-subject experiment, we collected objective metrics regarding the users’ behaviors during interaction with a crowd of VHs who expressed verbal and non-verbal communicative behaviors in response to us...