Evaluating the Need and Effect of an Audience in a Virtual Reality Presentation Training Tool

Diego Monteiro; Hai Ning Liang; Hongji Li; Yu Fu; Xian Wang

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63426-1_7

Evaluating the Need and Effect of an Audience in a Virtual Reality Presentation Training Tool

Diego Monteiro, Hai Ning Liang^*, Hongji Li, Yu Fu, Xian Wang

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Department of Computing

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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Abstract

Public speaking is an essential skill in everyone’s professional or academic career. Nevertheless, honing this skill is often tricky because training in front of a mirror does not give feedback or inspire the same anxiety as presenting in front of an audience. Further, most people do not always have access to the place where the presentation will happen. In this research, we developed a Virtual Reality (VR) environment to assist in improving people’s presentation skills. Our system uses 3D scanned people to create more realistic scenarios. We conducted a study with twelve participants who had no prior experience with VR. We validated our virtual environment by analyzing whether it was preferred to no VR system and accepted regardless of the existence of a virtual audience. Our results show that users overwhelmingly prefer to use the VR system as a tool to help them improve their public speaking skills than training in an empty environment. However, the preference for an audience is mixed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computer Animation and Social Agents - 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Feng Tian, Xiaosong Yang, Daniel Thalmann, Weiwei Xu, Jian Jun Zhang, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Jian Chang
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	62-70
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783030634254
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63426-1_7
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020 - Bournemouth, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Oct 2020 → 15 Oct 2020

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1300
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Bournemouth
Period	13/10/20 → 15/10/20

Keywords

3D scanned avatars
Public speaking
Training
Virtual Reality

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Monteiro, D., Liang, H. N., Li, H., Fu, Y., & Wang, X. (2020). Evaluating the Need and Effect of an Audience in a Virtual Reality Presentation Training Tool. In F. Tian, X. Yang, D. Thalmann, W. Xu, J. J. Zhang, N. M. Thalmann, & J. Chang (Eds.), Computer Animation and Social Agents - 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, Proceedings (pp. 62-70). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1300). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63426-1_7

Monteiro, Diego ; Liang, Hai Ning ; Li, Hongji et al. / Evaluating the Need and Effect of an Audience in a Virtual Reality Presentation Training Tool. Computer Animation and Social Agents - 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, Proceedings. editor / Feng Tian ; Xiaosong Yang ; Daniel Thalmann ; Weiwei Xu ; Jian Jun Zhang ; Nadia Magnenat Thalmann ; Jian Chang. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. pp. 62-70 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Monteiro, D, Liang, HN, Li, H, Fu, Y & Wang, X 2020, Evaluating the Need and Effect of an Audience in a Virtual Reality Presentation Training Tool. in F Tian, X Yang, D Thalmann, W Xu, JJ Zhang, NM Thalmann & J Chang (eds), Computer Animation and Social Agents - 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1300, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 62-70, 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 13/10/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63426-1_7

Evaluating the Need and Effect of an Audience in a Virtual Reality Presentation Training Tool. / Monteiro, Diego; Liang, Hai Ning; Li, Hongji et al.
Computer Animation and Social Agents - 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Feng Tian; Xiaosong Yang; Daniel Thalmann; Weiwei Xu; Jian Jun Zhang; Nadia Magnenat Thalmann; Jian Chang. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. p. 62-70 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1300).

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

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