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T1 Virtual Avatar for Emotion Recognition in Patients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study
A1 Marcos Pablos, Samuel
A1 González Pablos, Emilio
A1 Martín Lorenzo, Carlos
A1 Flores, Luis Alberto
A1 Gómez García-Bermejo, Jaime
A1 Zalama Casanova, Eduardo
K1 Robots
K1 Realidad virtual
AB Persons who suffer from schizophrenia have difficulties in recognizing emotions in others’facial expressions, which affects their capabilities for social interaction and hinders theirsocial integration. Photographic images have traditionally been used to explore emotionrecognition impairments in schizophrenia patients, but they lack of the dynamism thatis inherent to facial expressiveness. In order to overcome those inconveniences, overthe last years different authors have proposed the use of virtual avatars. In this work,we present the results of a pilot study that explored the possibilities of using a realisticlookingavatar for the assessment of emotion recognition deficits in patients who sufferfrom schizophrenia. In the study, 20 subjects with schizophrenia of long evolution and20 control subjects were invited to recognize a set of facial expressions of emotionsshowed by both the said virtual avatar and static images. Our results show thatschizophrenic patients exhibit recognition deficits in emotion recognition from facialexpressions regardless the type of stimuli (avatar or images), and that those deficitsare related with the psychopathology. Finally, some improvements in recognition rates(RRs) for the patient group when using the avatar were observed for sadness or surpriseexpressions, and they even outperform the control group in the recognition of thehappiness expression. This leads to conclude that, apart from the dynamism of theshown expression, the RRs for schizophrenia patients when employing animated avatarsmay depend on other factors which need to be further explored.
PB Clinical Trial
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21050
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/21050
LA spa
NO Samuel Marcos-Pablos, Emilio González-Pablos, Carlos Martín-Lorenzo, Luis A. Flores, Jaime Gómez-García-Bermejo, Eduardo Zalama. Virtual Avatar for Emotion Recognition in Patients with Schizophrenia: A Pilot Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2016, vol. 10. p. 1-12
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 28-nov-2024