Heng Yao

According to our database, Heng Yao authored at least 12 papers between 2018 and 2025.

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2025

Exploring the Effects of User-Agent and User-Designer Similarity in Virtual Human Design to Promote Mental Health Intentions for College Students.

Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Chase Wrenn, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Rashi Ghosh, Jacob Stuart, Heng Yao, Benjamin Lok

ACM Trans. Appl. Percept., January, 2025

2024

Effects of Nonsensical Responses in Virtual Human Simulations on Clinicians' Empathic Communication and Emotional Responses.

Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Heng Yao, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Megan L. Rogers, Olivia Lawrence, Devon Peterkin, Sifan Zheng, Kathleen Feeney, Erica D. Musser, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok

J. Braz. Comput. Soc., 2024

Enhancing Empathic Communication in Healthcare Education Through Virtual Conversations: Leveraging Large Language Models for Real-Time Feedback.

Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Margeaux Johnson, Roberta Pileggi, Amy Blue, Michael D. Bumbach, Rene Love, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality, 2024

Enhancing Virtual Human Interactions by Designing a Real-Time Dialog Filter for Mitigating Nonsensical Responses.

Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Heng Yao, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Olivia Lawrence, Giuseppe Sarli, Megan L. Rogers, Rohith Venkatakrishnan, Roshan Venkatakrishnan, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality, 2024

2022

A virtual human interaction using scaffolded ping-pong feedback for healthcare learners to practice empathy skills.

Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Anokhi Bafna, Devon Peterkin, Jenelle Richards, Megan L. Rogers, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the IVA '22: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Faro, Portugal, September 6, 2022

Can we talk about bruno?: exploring virtual human counselors' spoken accents and their impact on users' conversations.

Pedro Guillermo Feijóo García, Mohan Zalake, Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the IVA '22: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Faro, Portugal, September 6, 2022

2021

Investigating the Effects of Virtual Patients' Nonsensical Responses on Users' Facial Expressions in Mental Health Training Scenarios.

Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Heng Yao, Anokhi Bafna, Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, Jenelle Richards, Lauren B. Lloveras, Kathleen Feeney, Stephanie Morris, Erica D. Musser, Benjamin Lok, Igor Galynker

Proceedings of the VRST '21: 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, Virtual Event / Osaka, Japan, December 8, 2021

2020

Investigating Trainees' Nonverbal Behaviors in Virtual Patients Communication in Virtual Reality.

Heng Yao, Meryl Alappattu, Michael E. Robinson, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, 2020

Toward Automated Evaluation of Empathetic Responses in Virtual Human Interaction Systems for Mental Health Scenarios.

Heng Yao, Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Adriana Foster, Igor Galynker, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020

2019

Impact of Gamified Interaction with Virtual Nature on Sustained Attention and Self-Reported Restoration - A Pilot Study.

Oankar Patil, Heng Yao, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2019

Making Virtual Reality Social: Getting Virtual Humans into Your Virtual Environment.

Andrew Cordar, Heng Yao, Fatemeh Tavassoli, Jeffrey Wood, Benjamin Lok

Proceedings of the VR Developer Gems, 1st Edition, 2019

2018

Staying Alive With Virtual Humans.

Sarah Morrison-Smith, Heng Yao, Isaac Wang, Benjamin Lok, Jaime Ruiz

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018