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Animation and Graphics
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Publications
Speech driven video editing via an audio-conditioned diffusion model
PUBLICATION:
Image and Vision Computing
AUTHOR(S):
Dan Bigioi, Shubhajit Basak, Michal Stypulkowski, Maciej Zieba, Hugh Jordan, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
DATE:
13 January 2024
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Now I Wanna Be a Dog: Exploring the Impact of Audio and Tactile Feedback on Animal Embodiment
PUBLICATION:
ISMAR 2023 - 22st IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
AUTHOR(S):
Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rebecca Fribourg, Enda Bates, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
30 November 2023
TYPE:
Conf papers
Effect of Avatar Clothing and User Personality on Group Dynamics in Virtual Reality
PUBLICATION:
MIG 2023 - 16th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
AUTHOR(S):
Yuan He, Lauren Buck, Brendan Rooney, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 November 2023
TYPE:
Conf papers
Avatar Customization, Personality, and the Perception of Work Group Inclusion in Immersive Virtual Reality
PUBLICATION:
CSCW 2023 - Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
AUTHOR(S):
Lauren Buck, Gareth W. Young, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
14 October 2023
TYPE:
Conf papers
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
NeuroDog: Quadruped Embodiment Using Neural Networks
PUBLICATION:
ACM Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SCA special issue)
AUTHOR(S):
Donal Egan, Darren Cosker, Rachel McDonnell
DATE:
01 August 2023
TYPE:
Journal Articles
Human Speakers Help Machine Listeners To Account For Visual Asymmetries in Dialogue
PUBLICATION:
CUI 2023 - 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
AUTHOR(S):
Paola R. Pena, Philip R. Doyle, Diego Garaialde, Yunhan Wu, Rachel McDonnell, and Benjamin R. Cowan
DATE:
23 July 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
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 Peña 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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