3 papers
cs.HC2026
The Moment of Capture: How the First Seconds of a Speaker's Nonverbal and Verbal Performance Shapes Audience Judgments
Ralf Schmälzle, Yuetong Du, Sue Lim +1
Why do some speakers capture a room almost instantly while others fail to connect? The real-time architecture of audience engagement remains largely a black box. Here, we used moti…
cs.CL2025
The Art of Audience Engagement: LLM-Based Thin-Slicing of Scientific Talks
Ralf Schmälzle, Sue Lim, Yuetong Du +1
This paper examines the thin-slicing approach - the ability to make accurate judgments based on minimal information - in the context of scientific presentations. Drawing on researc…
cs.HC2024
Artificial social influence via human-embodied AI agent interaction in immersive virtual reality (VR): Effects of similarity-matching during health conversations
Sue Lim, Ralf Schmälzle, Gary Bente
Interactions with artificial intelligence (AI) based agents can positively influence human behavior and judgment. However, studies to date focus on text-based conversational agents…