adapt-expert-profilepic - Darragh Higgins

Darragh Higgins

PhD Student

Status: Former Member

Email Address: [email protected]

Darragh is a PhD research student in ADAPT, studying the perception of virtual humans with GV2 – Graphics and Visualisation Group.

Research Domains

Animation and Graphics
Behavioural Analysis
Emotion
Human Computer Interaction
Quality of Experience
VR and AR

Publications by Darragh Higgins

Priming and personality effects on the Sense of Embodiment for human and non-human avatars in Virtual Reality

PUBLICATION:	ICAT-EGVE2024 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Rachel McDonnell, Jean-Marie Normand, Rebecca Fribourg
DATE:	12 January 2024
TYPE:	Conf papers

Sympathy for the digital: Influence of synthetic voice on affinity, social presence and empathy for photorealistic virtual humans

PUBLICATION:	Computers & Graphics
AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Katja Zibrek, Joao Cabral, Donal Egan, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	31 March 2022
TYPE:	Journal Articles

Investigating the Effect of Visual Realism on Empathic Responses to Emotionally Expressive Virtual Humans

PUBLICATION:	ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023
AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Yilin Zhan, Benjamin R. Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	07 June 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

Investigating the Effect of Visual Realism on Empathic Responses to Emotionally Expressive Virtual Humans

PUBLICATION:	ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023
AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Yilin Zhan, Benjamin R. Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	07 June 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

A Special Interest Group on Developing Theories of Language Use in Interaction with Conversational User Interfaces

PUBLICATION:	CHI 2023 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
AUTHOR(S):	Paola Raquel PeÃ±a Huerta, Philip R.Doyle, Emily Y. J. Ip, Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Darragh Higgins, Rachel McDonnell, Holly Branigan, Joakim Gustafson, Donald McMillan, Robert J. Moore, Benjamin R. Cowan
DATE:	01 April 2023
TYPE:	Conf papers

Ascending from the valley: Can state-of-the-art photorealism avoid the uncanny?

PUBLICATION:	SAP '21 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021
AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Donal Egan, Rebecca Fribourg, Benjamin Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	01 September 2021
TYPE:	Conf papers

Remotely Perceived: Investigating the Influence of Valence on Self-Perception and Social Experience for Dyadic Video-Conferencing With Personalized Avatars

PUBLICATION:	Frontiers in Virtual Reality
AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Rebecca Fribourg, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:	31 May 2021
TYPE:	Journal Articles