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Dr Rachel McDonnell
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Animation and Graphics
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Publications
To smile or not to smile: The effect of mismatched emotional expressions in a Human-Robot cooperative task
PUBLICATION:
RO-MAN 2022 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
AUTHOR(S):
Ilaria Torre, Anna Deichler, Matthew Nicholson, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
DATE:
30 September 2022
TYPE:
Conf papers
Security and Privacy in the Metaverse: The Threat of the Digital Human
PUBLICATION:
CHI '22 - Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1st Workshop on Novel Challenges of Safety, Security and Privacy in Extended Reality
AUTHOR(S):
Lauren Buck, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
29 April 2022
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
Pose-Aware Speech Driven Facial Landmark Animation Pipeline for Automated Dubbing
PUBLICATION:
IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):
Dan Bigioi, Hugh Jordan, Rishabh Jain, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
DATE:
20 December 2022
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Compact Facial Landmark Layouts for Performance Capture
PUBLICATION:
Computer Graphics Forum (Special Edition Eurographics)
AUTHOR(S):
Eduard Zell, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
24 May 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
What's My Age Again? Exploring the Impact of Age on the Enfacement of Current State-of-the-Art Avatars
PUBLICATION:
VRW 2023 - Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2023
AUTHOR(S):
Hugh Jordan, Lauren Buck, Pradnya Shinde, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
23 March 2023
TYPE:
Conf papers
Proximity in VR: The Importance of Character Attractiveness and Participant Gender
PUBLICATION:
VR 2022 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Helene Olivier, Julien Pettre, Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
12 March 2022
TYPE:
Conf papers
Investigating how speech and animation realism influence the perceived personality of virtual characters and agents
PUBLICATION:
VR 2022 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
AUTHOR(S):
Sean Thomas, Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis
DATE:
12 March 2022
TYPE:
Conf papers
The Effect of Spatial Audio on the Virtual Representation of Personal Space
PUBLICATION:
VR 2022 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops
AUTHOR(S):
Lauren Buck, Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
12 March 2022
TYPE:
Conf papers
A Survey on the Application of Virtual Reality in Event-Related Potential Research
PUBLICATION:
CD-MAKE 2022 - International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
AUTHOR(S):
Vladimir Marochko, Richard Reilly, Rachel McDonnell, Luca Longo
DATE:
11 August 2022
TYPE:
Conf papers
3D face-model reconstruction from a single image: A feature aggregation approach using hierarchical transformer with weak supervision
PUBLICATION:
Neural Networks
AUTHOR(S):
Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukata
DATE:
01 December 2022
TYPE:
Journal Articles
State of the art in telepresence
PUBLICATION:
SIGGRAPH '22 - Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference
AUTHOR(S):
Jason Lawrence, Ye Pan, Dan B Goldman, Rachel McDonnell, Julie Robillard, Carol O'Sullivan, Yaser Sheikh, Michael Zollhoefer, Jason Saragih
DATE:
01 August 2022
TYPE:
Conf papers
Smiling in the Face and Voice of Avatars and Robots: Evidence for a 'smiling McGurk effect'
PUBLICATION:
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
AUTHOR(S):
Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
DATE:
01 January 2022
TYPE:
Journal Articles
How to train your dog: Neural enhancement of quadruped animations
PUBLICATION:
MIG '21 - Motion, Interaction, and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Donal Egan, George Fletcher, Yiguo Qiao, Darren Cosker, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 November 2021
TYPE:
Conf papers
Mirror, Mirror on My Phone: Investigating Dimensions of Self-Face Perception Induced by Augmented Reality Filters
PUBLICATION:
ISMAR 2021 - IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
AUTHOR(S):
Rebecca Fribourg, Etienne Peillard, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
04 October 2021
TYPE:
Conf papers
Dimensional perception of a 'smiling McGurk effect'
PUBLICATION:
ACII 2021 - 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2021
AUTHOR(S):
Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Emma Carrigan, Lolanda Leite, Iolanda, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
DATE:
28 September 2021
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
Evaluating Study Design and Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Hand Tracking Loss
PUBLICATION:
SAP '21 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Neff
DATE:
01 September 2021
TYPE:
Conf papers
Human or Robot? Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents
PUBLICATION:
IVA '21 - 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cedric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 September 2021
TYPE:
Conf papers
Appearance
PUBLICATION:
The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Methods, Behavior, Cognition
AUTHOR(S):
Rachel McDonnell, Bilge Mutlu
DATE:
01 September 2021
TYPE:
Book Chapters
ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching
PUBLICATION:
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 July 2021
TYPE:
Journal Articles
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
Learning Accurate Head Pose for Consumer Technology From 3D Synthetic Data
PUBLICATION:
ICCEE 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
AUTHOR(S):
Shubhajit Basak, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
DATE:
13 May 2021
TYPE:
Conf papers
Learning 3D Head Pose From Synthetic Data: A Semi-Supervised Approach
PUBLICATION:
IEEE Access
AUTHOR(S):
Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
DATE:
04 March 2021
TYPE:
Journal Articles
It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching
PUBLICATION:
AAMAS '21 - 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 March 2021
TYPE:
Conf papers
The effect of gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality
PUBLICATION:
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Helene Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettré, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 November 2020
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Developing a Multi-modal Embodied Virtual Agent with Realistic Appearance and Emotional Response for Games
PUBLICATION:
MIG '20 - ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Emma Carrigan, Katja Zibrek, Rozenn Dahyot, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
16 October 2020
TYPE:
Conf papers
Investigating Perceptually Based Models to Predict Importance of Facial Blendshapes
PUBLICATION:
MIG '20 - ACM Conference on Motion Interaction and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Emma Carrigan, Katja Zibrek, Rozenn Dahyot, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
16 October 2020
TYPE:
Conf papers
Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and Their Perceptual Importance
PUBLICATION:
IVA '20 - 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
19 September 2020
TYPE:
Conf papers
Evalu-light: A practical approach for evaluating character lighting in real-time
PUBLICATION:
SAP '20 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Pisut Wisessing, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
12 September 2020
TYPE:
Conf papers
Expression Packing: As‐Few‐As‐Possible Training Expressions for Blendshape Transfer
PUBLICATION:
Computer Graphics Forum
AUTHOR(S):
Emma Carrigan, Eduard Zell, Cedric Guiard, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
13 July 2020
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Adversarial gesture generation with realistic gesture phasing
PUBLICATION:
Computers & Graphics
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 June 2020
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Enlighten Me: Importance of Brightness and Shadow for Character Emotion and Appeal
PUBLICATION:
ACM Transactions on Graphics
AUTHOR(S):
Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas W Cunningham, John Dingliana, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
14 April 2020
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Walk this way: Evaluating the effect of perceived gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality
PUBLICATION:
VRW 2020 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettre, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
22 March 2020
TYPE:
Conf papers
Social Presence and Place Illusion Are Affected by Photorealism in Embodied VR
PUBLICATION:
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 October 2019
TYPE:
Conf papers
Multi-objective adversarial gesture generation
PUBLICATION:
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 October 2019
TYPE:
Conf papers
The Effect of Multimodal Emotional Expression and Agent Appearance on Trust in Human-Agent Interaction
PUBLICATION:
MIG '19 - ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Rachel McDonnell, Katarina Domijan, Killian McCabe, Naomi Harte
DATE:
01 October 2019
TYPE:
Conf papers
A phychophysical model to control the brightness and key-to-fill ratio in CG cartoon character lighting
PUBLICATION:
SAP '19 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019
AUTHOR(S):
Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas Cunningham, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 September 2019
TYPE:
Conf papers
Is photorealism important for perception of expressive virtual humans in VR?
PUBLICATION:
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Sean Martin, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 September 2019
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Perception of Virtual Characters
PUBLICATION:
ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 - Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Eduard Zell, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 July 2019
TYPE:
Conf papers
Investigating the use of recurrent motion modelling for speech gesture generation
PUBLICATION:
IVA '18 - International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
05 November 2018
TYPE:
Conf papers
A perceptual study on the manipulation of facial features for trait portrayal in virtual agents
PUBLICATION:
IVA '18 - International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
05 November 2018
TYPE:
Conf papers
Survival at the Museum: A Cooperation Experiment with Emotionally Expressive Virtual Characters
PUBLICATION:
ICMI 2018 - 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
AUTHOR(S):
Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Killian McCabe, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
DATE:
16 September 2018
TYPE:
Conf papers
The Effect of Realistic Appearance of Virtual Characters in Immersive Environments - Does the Character's Personality Play a Role?
PUBLICATION:
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
23 January 2018
TYPE:
Journal Articles
A Preliminary Investigation into the Impact of Training for Example-Based Facial Blendshape Creation
PUBLICATION:
EG 2018 - 39th Eurographics conference
AUTHOR(S):
Emma Carrigan, Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell, Quentin Avril
DATE:
01 January 2018
TYPE:
Conf papers
Data-Driven Approach to Synthesizing Facial Animation Using Motion Capture
PUBLICATION:
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
AUTHOR(S):
Kerstin Ruhland, Mukta Prasad, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
21 August 2017
TYPE:
Journal Articles
The Influence of Synthetic Voice on the Evaluation of a Virtual Character
PUBLICATION:
INTERSPEECH 2017 - 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
AUTHOR(S):
Joao Cabral, Benjamin Cowan, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
20 August 2017
TYPE:
Conf papers
Evaluating the response to virtual characters by using a social behavioral task
PUBLICATION:
VSI 2017 - 3rd International Workshop on Virtual Social Interaction
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 July 2017
TYPE:
Conf papers
Automatic gesture generation for virtual humans with deep temporal learning
PUBLICATION:
VSI 2017 - 3rd International Workshop on Virtual Social Interaction
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 July 2017
TYPE:
Conf papers
Don't Stand So Close To Me: Investigating the effect of control on the appeal of virtual humans using immersion and a proximity-based behavioral task
PUBLICATION:
SAP '17 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 January 2017
TYPE:
Conf papers
Facial features of non-player creatures can influence moral decisions in video games
PUBLICATION:
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Ylva Ferstl, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 January 2017
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Perception of Lighting and Shading for Animated Virtual Characters
PUBLICATION:
SAP '16 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Pisut Wisessing, John Dingliana, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
22 July 2016
TYPE:
Conf papers
Speech independent emotion transfer for virtual faces
PUBLICATION:
FAAVSP '15: 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual
AUTHOR(S):
Timothy Costigan, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 February 2016
TYPE:
Conf papers
Animation realism affects perceived character appeal of a self-virtual face
PUBLICATION:
MIG 2015 - 8th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games
AUTHOR(S):
Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
16 November 2015
TYPE:
Conf papers
Exploring the Effect of Motion Type and Emotions on the Perception of Gender in Virtual Humans
PUBLICATION:
ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Katja Zibrek, Ludovic Hoyet, Kerstin Ruhland, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
04 November 2015
TYPE:
Journal Articles
To Stylize or not to Stylize? Effect of Shape and Material Stylization on the Perception of Computer Generated Faces
PUBLICATION:
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
AUTHOR(S):
Eduard Zell, Carlos Aliaga, Adrian Jarabo, Katja Zibrek, Diego Gutierrez, Rachel McDonnell, Mario Botsch
DATE:
01 November 2015
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Perception of personality through eye gaze of realistic and cartoon models
PUBLICATION:
SAP '15 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
AUTHOR(S):
Kerstin Ruhland, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
13 September 2015
TYPE:
Conf papers
A review of eye gaze in virtual agents, social robots and HCI: Behaviour generation, user interaction and perception
PUBLICATION:
Computer Graphics Forum
AUTHOR(S):
Kerstin Ruhland, Christopher E. Peters, Sean Andrist, Jeremy B. Badler, Norman I. Badler, Michael Gleicher, Bilge Mutlu, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 July 2015
TYPE:
Journal Articles