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Designing and Assessing Interactive Virtual Characters for Children Affected by ADHD

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Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (EuroVR 2019)

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Within the BRAVO project, we are designing four virtual characters that will interact with children affected by ADHD. In order to assess the quality of the designed characters, we propose a metric to subjectively evaluate the level of intelligibility of the character’s facial expression. The results of a preliminary user study conducted with 23 individuals show that our quality measure can be used to quickly identify flawed expressions and iteratively improve the design of the characters.

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  1. Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Fabrizio Nunnari, Serena Magliaro, Giovanni D’Errico, Valerio De Luca, Maria Cristina Barba & Lucio Tommaso De Paolis

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    Patrick Bourdot

  2. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Victoria Interrante

  3. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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  4. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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Nunnari, F., Magliaro, S., D’Errico, G., De Luca, V., Barba, M.C., De Paolis, L.T. (2019). Designing and Assessing Interactive Virtual Characters for Children Affected by ADHD. In: Bourdot, P., Interrante, V., Nedel, L., Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Zachmann, G. (eds) Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. EuroVR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11883. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31908-3_17

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