Virtual Humans and Social Interaction

We thought that, virtual reality cannot merely be reduced to a hardware system, another way to achieve the optimal experience, is to produce a sense of immersion associated to an emotional and social experience inside the virtual environment. We believe that Virtual Characters that express a social and emotional behavior in their interaction could produce a sense of immersion in the user that interact with them. We propose to use this kind of character to develop social and emotional interfaces, capable to produce a believable Social Interaction.

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