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Darragh Higgins

PhD Student

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

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

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