Dr Rachel McDonnell

Publications by Rachel McDonnell

• Speech driven video editing via an audio-conditioned diffusion model

  PUBLICATION:	Image and Vision Computing
  AUTHOR(S):	Dan Bigioi, Shubhajit Basak, Michal Stypulkowski, Maciej Zieba, Hugh Jordan, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
  DATE:	13 January 2024
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Now I Wanna Be a Dog: Exploring the Impact of Audio and Tactile Feedback on Animal Embodiment

  PUBLICATION:	ISMAR 2023 - 22st IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
  AUTHOR(S):	Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rebecca Fribourg, Enda Bates, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	30 November 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Effect of Avatar Clothing and User Personality on Group Dynamics in Virtual Reality

  PUBLICATION:	MIG 2023 - 16th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Yuan He, Lauren Buck, Brendan Rooney, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 November 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Avatar Customization, Personality, and the Perception of Work Group Inclusion in Immersive Virtual Reality

  PUBLICATION:	CSCW 2023 - Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
  AUTHOR(S):	Lauren Buck, Gareth W. Young, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	14 October 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• To smile or not to smile: The effect of mismatched emotional expressions in a Human-Robot cooperative task

  PUBLICATION:	RO-MAN 2022 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
  AUTHOR(S):	Ilaria Torre, Anna Deichler, Matthew Nicholson, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
  DATE:	30 September 2022
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Security and Privacy in the Metaverse: The Threat of the Digital Human

  PUBLICATION:	CHI '22 - Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1st Workshop on Novel Challenges of Safety, Security and Privacy in Extended Reality
  AUTHOR(S):	Lauren Buck, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	29 April 2022
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Sympathy for the digital: Influence of synthetic voice on affinity, social presence and empathy for photorealistic virtual humans

  PUBLICATION:	Computers & Graphics
  AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Katja Zibrek, Joao Cabral, Donal Egan, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	31 March 2022
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Pose-Aware Speech Driven Facial Landmark Animation Pipeline for Automated Dubbing

  PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
  AUTHOR(S):	Dan Bigioi, Hugh Jordan, Rishabh Jain, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
  DATE:	20 December 2022
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Compact Facial Landmark Layouts for Performance Capture

  PUBLICATION:	Computer Graphics Forum (Special Edition Eurographics)
  AUTHOR(S):	Eduard Zell, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	24 May 2022
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• NeuroDog: Quadruped Embodiment Using Neural Networks

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SCA special issue)
  AUTHOR(S):	Donal Egan, Darren Cosker, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 August 2023
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Human Speakers Help Machine Listeners To Account For Visual Asymmetries in Dialogue

  PUBLICATION:	CUI 2023 - 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
  AUTHOR(S):	Paola R. Pena, Philip R. Doyle, Diego Garaialde, Yunhan Wu, Rachel McDonnell, and Benjamin R. Cowan
  DATE:	23 July 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Investigating the Effect of Visual Realism on Empathic Responses to Emotionally Expressive Virtual Humans

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023
  AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Yilin Zhan, Benjamin R. Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	07 June 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Investigating the Effect of Visual Realism on Empathic Responses to Emotionally Expressive Virtual Humans

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023
  AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Yilin Zhan, Benjamin R. Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	07 June 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• A Special Interest Group on Developing Theories of Language Use in Interaction with Conversational User Interfaces

  PUBLICATION:	CHI 2023 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  AUTHOR(S):	Paola Raquel Peña Huerta, Philip R.Doyle, Emily Y. J. Ip, Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Darragh Higgins, Rachel McDonnell, Holly Branigan, Joakim Gustafson, Donald McMillan, Robert J. Moore, Benjamin R. Cowan
  DATE:	01 April 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• What's My Age Again? Exploring the Impact of Age on the Enfacement of Current State-of-the-Art Avatars

  PUBLICATION:	VRW 2023 - Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2023
  AUTHOR(S):	Hugh Jordan, Lauren Buck, Pradnya Shinde, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	23 March 2023
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Proximity in VR: The Importance of Character Attractiveness and Participant Gender

  PUBLICATION:	VR 2022 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Helene Olivier, Julien Pettre, Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	12 March 2022
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Investigating how speech and animation realism influence the perceived personality of virtual characters and agents

  PUBLICATION:	VR 2022 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces
  AUTHOR(S):	Sean Thomas, Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis
  DATE:	12 March 2022
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• The Effect of Spatial Audio on the Virtual Representation of Personal Space

  PUBLICATION:	VR 2022 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops
  AUTHOR(S):	Lauren Buck, Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	12 March 2022
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• A Survey on the Application of Virtual Reality in Event-Related Potential Research

  PUBLICATION:	CD-MAKE 2022 - International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
  AUTHOR(S):	Vladimir Marochko, Richard Reilly, Rachel McDonnell, Luca Longo
  DATE:	11 August 2022
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• 3D face-model reconstruction from a single image: A feature aggregation approach using hierarchical transformer with weak supervision

  PUBLICATION:	Neural Networks
  AUTHOR(S):	Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukata
  DATE:	01 December 2022
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• State of the art in telepresence

  PUBLICATION:	SIGGRAPH '22 - Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference
  AUTHOR(S):	Jason Lawrence, Ye Pan, Dan B Goldman, Rachel McDonnell, Julie Robillard, Carol O'Sullivan, Yaser Sheikh, Michael Zollhoefer, Jason Saragih
  DATE:	01 August 2022
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Smiling in the Face and Voice of Avatars and Robots: Evidence for a 'smiling McGurk effect'

  PUBLICATION:	IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  AUTHOR(S):	Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
  DATE:	01 January 2022
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• How to train your dog: Neural enhancement of quadruped animations

  PUBLICATION:	MIG '21 - Motion, Interaction, and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Donal Egan, George Fletcher, Yiguo Qiao, Darren Cosker, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 November 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Mirror, Mirror on My Phone: Investigating Dimensions of Self-Face Perception Induced by Augmented Reality Filters

  PUBLICATION:	ISMAR 2021 - IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
  AUTHOR(S):	Rebecca Fribourg, Etienne Peillard, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	04 October 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Dimensional perception of a 'smiling McGurk effect'

  PUBLICATION:	ACII 2021 - 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2021
  AUTHOR(S):	Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Emma Carrigan, Lolanda Leite, Iolanda, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
  DATE:	28 September 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Evaluating Study Design and Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Hand Tracking Loss

  PUBLICATION:	SAP '21 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Neff
  DATE:	01 September 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Ascending from the valley: Can state-of-the-art photorealism avoid the uncanny?

  PUBLICATION:	SAP '21 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021
  AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Donal Egan, Rebecca Fribourg, Benjamin Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 September 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Human or Robot? Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents

  PUBLICATION:	IVA '21 - 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cedric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 September 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Appearance

  PUBLICATION:	The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 1: Methods, Behavior, Cognition
  AUTHOR(S):	Rachel McDonnell, Bilge Mutlu
  DATE:	01 September 2021
  TYPE:	Book Chapters

• ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching

  PUBLICATION:	Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 July 2021
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Remotely Perceived: Investigating the Influence of Valence on Self-Perception and Social Experience for Dyadic Video-Conferencing With Personalized Avatars

  PUBLICATION:	Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  AUTHOR(S):	Darragh Higgins, Rebecca Fribourg, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	31 May 2021
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Learning Accurate Head Pose for Consumer Technology From 3D Synthetic Data

  PUBLICATION:	ICCEE 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
  AUTHOR(S):	Shubhajit Basak, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
  DATE:	13 May 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Learning 3D Head Pose From Synthetic Data: A Semi-Supervised Approach

  PUBLICATION:	IEEE Access
  AUTHOR(S):	Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
  DATE:	04 March 2021
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching

  PUBLICATION:	AAMAS '21 - 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 March 2021
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• The effect of gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Helene Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettré, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 November 2020
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Developing a Multi-modal Embodied Virtual Agent with Realistic Appearance and Emotional Response for Games

  PUBLICATION:	MIG '20 - ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Emma Carrigan, Katja Zibrek, Rozenn Dahyot, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	16 October 2020
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Investigating Perceptually Based Models to Predict Importance of Facial Blendshapes

  PUBLICATION:	MIG '20 - ACM Conference on Motion Interaction and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Emma Carrigan, Katja Zibrek, Rozenn Dahyot, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	16 October 2020
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and Their Perceptual Importance

  PUBLICATION:	IVA '20 - 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	19 September 2020
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Evalu-light: A practical approach for evaluating character lighting in real-time

  PUBLICATION:	SAP '20 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Pisut Wisessing, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	12 September 2020
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Expression Packing: As‐Few‐As‐Possible Training Expressions for Blendshape Transfer

  PUBLICATION:	Computer Graphics Forum
  AUTHOR(S):	Emma Carrigan, Eduard Zell, Cedric Guiard, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	13 July 2020
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Adversarial gesture generation with realistic gesture phasing

  PUBLICATION:	Computers & Graphics
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 June 2020
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Enlighten Me: Importance of Brightness and Shadow for Character Emotion and Appeal

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Transactions on Graphics
  AUTHOR(S):	Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas W Cunningham, John Dingliana, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	14 April 2020
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Walk this way: Evaluating the effect of perceived gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality

  PUBLICATION:	VRW 2020 - IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettre, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	22 March 2020
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Multi-objective adversarial gesture generation

  PUBLICATION:	ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 October 2019
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• The Effect of Multimodal Emotional Expression and Agent Appearance on Trust in Human-Agent Interaction

  PUBLICATION:	MIG '19 - ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Rachel McDonnell, Katarina Domijan, Killian McCabe, Naomi Harte
  DATE:	01 October 2019
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Social Presence and Place Illusion Are Affected by Photorealism in Embodied VR

  PUBLICATION:	ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 October 2019
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Is photorealism important for perception of expressive virtual humans in VR?

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Sean Martin, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 September 2019
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• A phychophysical model to control the brightness and key-to-fill ratio in CG cartoon character lighting

  PUBLICATION:	SAP '19 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019
  AUTHOR(S):	Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas Cunningham, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 September 2019
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Perception of Virtual Characters

  PUBLICATION:	ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 - Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Eduard Zell, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 July 2019
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Investigating the use of recurrent motion modelling for speech gesture generation

  PUBLICATION:	IVA '18 - International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	05 November 2018
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• A perceptual study on the manipulation of facial features for trait portrayal in virtual agents

  PUBLICATION:	IVA '18 - International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	05 November 2018
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Survival at the Museum: A Cooperation Experiment with Emotionally Expressive Virtual Characters

  PUBLICATION:	ICMI 2018 - 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
  AUTHOR(S):	Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Killian McCabe, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
  DATE:	16 September 2018
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• The Effect of Realistic Appearance of Virtual Characters in Immersive Environments - Does the Character's Personality Play a Role?

  PUBLICATION:	IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	23 January 2018
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• A Preliminary Investigation into the Impact of Training for Example-Based Facial Blendshape Creation

  PUBLICATION:	EG 2018 - 39th Eurographics conference
  AUTHOR(S):	Emma Carrigan, Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell, Quentin Avril
  DATE:	01 January 2018
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Data-Driven Approach to Synthesizing Facial Animation Using Motion Capture

  PUBLICATION:	IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  AUTHOR(S):	Kerstin Ruhland, Mukta Prasad, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	21 August 2017
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• The Influence of Synthetic Voice on the Evaluation of a Virtual Character

  PUBLICATION:	INTERSPEECH 2017 - 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
  AUTHOR(S):	Joao Cabral, Benjamin Cowan, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	20 August 2017
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Automatic gesture generation for virtual humans with deep temporal learning

  PUBLICATION:	VSI 2017 - 3rd International Workshop on Virtual Social Interaction
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 July 2017
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Evaluating the response to virtual characters by using a social behavioral task

  PUBLICATION:	VSI 2017 - 3rd International Workshop on Virtual Social Interaction
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 July 2017
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Don't Stand So Close To Me: Investigating the effect of control on the appeal of virtual humans using immersion and a proximity-based behavioral task

  PUBLICATION:	SAP '17 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 January 2017
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Facial features of non-player creatures can influence moral decisions in video games

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Ylva Ferstl, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 January 2017
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Perception of Lighting and Shading for Animated Virtual Characters

  PUBLICATION:	SAP '16 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Pisut Wisessing, John Dingliana, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	22 July 2016
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Speech independent emotion transfer for virtual faces

  PUBLICATION:	FAAVSP '15: 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual
  AUTHOR(S):	Timothy Costigan, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 February 2016
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Animation realism affects perceived character appeal of a self-virtual face

  PUBLICATION:	MIG 2015 - 8th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games
  AUTHOR(S):	Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	16 November 2015
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• Exploring the Effect of Motion Type and Emotions on the Perception of Gender in Virtual Humans

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Katja Zibrek, Ludovic Hoyet, Kerstin Ruhland, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	04 November 2015
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• To Stylize or not to Stylize? Effect of Shape and Material Stylization on the Perception of Computer Generated Faces

  PUBLICATION:	ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
  AUTHOR(S):	Eduard Zell, Carlos Aliaga, Adrian Jarabo, Katja Zibrek, Diego Gutierrez, Rachel McDonnell, Mario Botsch
  DATE:	01 November 2015
  TYPE:	Journal Articles

• Perception of personality through eye gaze of realistic and cartoon models

  PUBLICATION:	SAP '15 - ACM Symposium on Applied Perception
  AUTHOR(S):	Kerstin Ruhland, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	13 September 2015
  TYPE:	Conf papers

• A review of eye gaze in virtual agents, social robots and HCI: Behaviour generation, user interaction and perception

  PUBLICATION:	Computer Graphics Forum
  AUTHOR(S):	Kerstin Ruhland, Christopher E. Peters, Sean Andrist, Jeremy B. Badler, Norman I. Badler, Michael Gleicher, Bilge Mutlu, Rachel McDonnell
  DATE:	01 July 2015
  TYPE:	Journal Articles