Research

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The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: Design Chronicle of Election Forecast…

A year ago, we submitted an IEEE VIS paper entitled “Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion,…
Political Communication

The Emotional Power of Partisan Media: A Computer Vision Analysis of…

Building on theories of emotional contagion and affective priming, the study assesses the emotional impact of the U.S. partisan media’s…
Political Communication

Agenda Setting in the Wizarding World: Computationally Examining Attribute Agenda and…

Abstract: This study investigates the complex dynamics of public discourse on Twitter/X concerning the transgender-related controversy surrounding the video game…
Agenda Setting LGBTQ Public Opinion Sentiment Video Games
April 29, 2024

Physiological response to political advertisement: Examining the influence of partisan and…

This study investigates voters’ physiological response to real political advertisements that are issue focused and sponsored by three different political…
Advertising Political Communication
April 17, 2024

The Robot Rights and Responsibilities Scale: Development and Validation of a…

The discussion and debates surrounding the robot rights topic demonstrate vast differences in the possible philosophical, ethical, and legal approaches…
AI Human-Computer Interaction Robots

Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality

Full Title: Excitation Transfer Across Displays of Different Immersive Quality: Investigating the Temporal Dynamics of Intra-Stimulus Arousal Escalation and Decay.…
Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Reality
December 7, 2023

The Power of Personal Ontologies: Individual Traits Prevail Over Robot Traits…

This study examines facets of robot humanization, defined as how people think of robots as social and human-like entities through…
Artificial Intelligence Human-Computer Interaction
September 18, 2023

Effects of Congruity on the State of User Presence in Virtual…

The present study investigates how the user state of presence is affected by contingencies in the design of virtual environments.…
Human-Computer Interaction Virtual Reality
May 9, 2023

Psychological Predictors of Consumer-Level Virtual Reality Technology Adoption and Usage

In recent years, virtual reality (VR) technology has been mainstreamed for at-home use, with various consumer-oriented devices released by media…
Virtual Reality
December 30, 2022

Capturing Social Presence: Concept Explication Through an Empirical Analysis of Social…

Initially the province of telecommunication and early computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature, multiple systematic reviews suggest “social presence” is now used…
Human-Computer Interaction
November 22, 2022
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