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Study: Patients are More Honest With Virtual Humans

Posted in Research and Development by Chris Wiltz on July 16, 2014

 A study has shown that patients are more honest with a virtual human than when speaking to the real thing.

The researchers, led by Gale Lucas, a social psychologist at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), recruited 239 adults, ages 18-65, to interact with a virtual human as if they were being admitted into a clinic or hospital. Subjects interacted through SimSensei, an application developed at the ICT that renders a computer-generated person and uses realtime sensing and behavior recognition to detect signs of depression and other mental illness.

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