{"60756":{"#nid":"60756","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag: Sara McBride \u0026 Eric Stearman","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERecognizing Emotion in Virtual Agent, Synthetic Human, and Human Facial Expressions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; A growing interest in the HCI community is the design and \ndevelopment of embodied agents in virtual environments. For virtual \nenvironments where social interaction is needed, an agent\u2019s facial \nexpression may communicate emotive state to users both young and old. \nHowever, younger and older adults differ in how they label human facial \nexpressions (Ruffman et al., 2008). Such possible age-related \ndifferences in labeling virtual agent expressions may impact the user\u2019s \nsocial experience in a virtual environment. The purpose of the current \nresearch was to investigate age-related differences in emotion \nrecognition of several on-screen characters of varying degrees of \nhuman-likeness. Participants performed a recognition task with three \ncharacters demonstrating four basic emotions or neutral. The results \nindicated age-related differences for all character types. Older adults \ncommonly mislabeled the human and synthetic human emotions of anger, \nfear, sadness, and neutral. For the virtual agent face, older adults \ncommonly mislabeled the emotions of anger, fear, happiness, and neutral.\u003C\/p\u003E\n              \u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003ESara McBride is a 4th year graduate student in \nthe Human Factors and Aging Laboratory. She is currently completing the \nrequirements for a Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology. Her main\u0026nbsp; research \ninterests include understanding how people interact with complex \nautomated systems, and the factors that can make this interaction more \nsuccessful.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEffects of Age-of-Flight on Situation Awareness in \u003Cem\u003EEn Route \u003C\/em\u003EAir Traffic Control\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; The purpose of this study was to examine how situation \nawareness (SA) changes in en route air traffic control throughout the \ncourse of a flight.\u0026nbsp; Sixteen participants were recruited from Georgia \nInstitute of Technology.\u0026nbsp; Participants were trained for five weeks on a \nlow fidelity air traffic control simulator (NextSim).\u0026nbsp; During the five \nweeks of training, situation awareness was measured during four \nsessions.\u0026nbsp; Participants were queried about protagonist information \n(speed and altitude) or intentionality information (destination).\u0026nbsp; \nQueries were asked about flights which had been on the screen for 30-45 \nseconds (entering flights), flights which had been on the screen for a \nminimum of 90 seconds (middle flights), or no flights had the \ncharacteristic.\u0026nbsp; Questions regarding protagonist information were \nanswered more quickly than questions regarding intentionality for all \nages-of-flights.\u0026nbsp; However, questions regarding protagonist information \nimproved for middle flights compared to entering flights while questions\n regarding intentionality were worse for middle flights compared to \nentering flights.\u0026nbsp; These results indicate that altitude and speed become\n more important, and that destination becomes less important, as a \nflight moves through the sector.\u0026nbsp; Therefore, interventions designed to \nimprove SA should take into account the age-of-flight and characteristic\n trying to be improved.\u003C\/p\u003E\n        \n        \n\n\n    \n            \u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEric Stearman received his B.S. in Psychology from the University of \nCentral Florida.\u0026nbsp; Eric is currently a second year graduate student in \nthe Engineering Psychology program at the Georgia Institute of \nTechnology.\u0026nbsp; His current research focuses on situation awareness and \nmonitoring in air traffic control including the proposed NextGen \nenvironment.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2010 conference preview talks"}],"uid":"27197","created_gmt":"2010-09-01 14:18:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:52:15","author":"Renata Le Dantec","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-09-23T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-09-23T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-09-23T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-09-23 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-09-23 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-09-23 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}