DIGIREAL Lunch Meeting - Human & Virtual Human Interactions - 13 | 03 | 2025

The second 2025 DIGIREAL lunch meeting celebrates the launch of the VHESPER project. This project investigates the emerging role of virtual humans (VHs) - interactive, realistic digital agents - in a variety of applications, including healthcare, education and entertainment. In this meeting, Kyana van Eijndhoven talks about research on nonverbal mimicry in human-virtual human interaction. Ruben Decoster talks about virtual humans in real conversations and training conversational skills with AI.