cs.HC · 2026-09-24 · No. 123

Human-Computer Interaction, 2026-09-24.

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01 — The papers

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    Listening and Mirroring: The Effects of Verbal Attunement and Behavioral Mimicry on Social and Empathic Perceptions of Embodied AI Agents in VR

    Nathalia Gomez, Haig Shamlian, Omar Khan, Tiffany D. Do

    cs.HC · cs.AI

    As embodied agents take on increasingly social and relational roles in VR, visual realism and embodiment alone may be insufficient; users must also perceive these agents as emotionally attuned, supportive, and humanlike. Prior work suggests that verbal attunement and nonverbal mimicry can each improve users' social evaluations of embodied agents. However, behavioral mimicry has largely been studied outside of real-time, conversational AI...

    arxiv.org/abs/2609.27246 · PDF

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