Morad Elfleet
You can find me usually in SAWB, Room 502.
Research title: Enhancing Immersive Virtual Interactions with Real-time Behaviour- Driven Virtual Agents
Research Summary
Research: Enhancing Immersive Virtual Interactions with Real-time Behaviour-Driven Virtual Agents
I'm interested in developing and evaluating gaze behaviours in virtual agents within VR. As part of the research, I'll be exploring:
- (1) using saliency mapping to drive agent’s gaze towards high-interest areas in real-time
- (2) user experience evaluation to study how varying gaze patterns and behaviors influence user perception, immersion and social presence during interactions.
The aim of my research is to design more natural and socially aware agents by integrating intelligent gaze behaviors, helping to improve how virtual agents engage with users in dynamic VR environments.
Publications
Elfleet, M. and Chollet, M. (2024) Investigating the Impact of Multimodal Feedback on User-Perceived Latency and Immersion with LLM-Powered Embodied Conversational Agents in Virtual Reality. In: 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '24), 16-19 Sep 2024, ISBN 9798400706257 (Accepted for Publication)
