Dr Rachel McDonnell

Publications

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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