Rachel McDonnell

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2004-2024
Publications (10 Years): 72

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Dan Bigioi, Shubhajit Basak, Michal Stypulkowski, Maciej Zieba, Hugh Jordan, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
Speech driven video editing via an audio-conditioned diffusion model. Image Vis. Comput. 142 (2024)
Alberto Jovane, Dónal Egan, Mauricio Flores Vargas, Sue Mythen, Rachel McDonnell
Virtual Animal Embodiment for Actor Training. VR Workshops (2024)
Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
Smiling in the Face and Voice of Avatars and Robots: Evidence for a 'Smiling McGurk Effect'. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 15 (2) (2024)
Pisut Wisessing, Rachel McDonnell
Blinded by the light: Does portrait lighting design affect perception of realistic virtual humans? SAP (2024)
Lauren E. Buck, Gareth W. Young, Rachel McDonnell
Avatar Customization, Personality, and the Perception of Work Group Inclusion in Immersive Virtual Reality. CSCW Companion (2023)
Dónal Egan, Darren Cosker, Rachel McDonnell
NeuroDog: Quadruped Embodiment using Neural Networks. Proc. ACM Comput. Graph. Interact. Tech. 6 (3) (2023)
Yuan He, Lauren E. Buck, Brendan Rooney, Rachel McDonnell
Effect of Avatar Clothing and User Personality on Group Dynamics in Virtual Reality. MIG (2023)
Shubhajit Basak, Sathish Mangapuram, Gabriel Costache, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
A lightweight 3D dense facial landmark estimation model from position map data. CoRR (2023)
Hugh Jordan, Lauren E. Buck, Prashant P. Shinde, Rachel McDonnell
What's My Age Again? Exploring the Impact of Age on the Enfacement of Current State-of-the-Art Avatars. VRW (2023)
Paola Raquel Peña, Philip R. Doyle, Emily Yj Ip, Giovanni Di Liberto, Darragh Higgins, Rachel McDonnell, Holly P. Branigan, Joakim Gustafson, Donald McMillan, Robert J. Moore, Benjamin R. Cowan
A Special Interest Group on Developing Theories of Language Use in Interaction with Conversational User Interfaces. CHI Extended Abstracts (2023)
Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rebecca Fribourg, Enda Bates, Rachel McDonnell
Now I Wanna Be a Dog: Exploring the Impact of Audio and Tactile Feedback on Animal Embodiment. ISMAR (2023)
Darragh Higgins, Yilin Zhan, Benjamin R. Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
Investigating the effect of visual realism on empathic responses to emotionally expressive virtual humans. SAP (2023)
Jason Lawrence, Ye Pan, Dan B. Goldman, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O'Sullivan, Dave Luebke, Koki Nagano, Michael Zollhöfer, Jason M. Saragih
State of the Art in Telepresence (Part 1). SIGGRAPH Courses (2023)
Dan Bigioi, Shubhajit Basak, Hugh Jordan, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
Speech Driven Video Editing via an Audio-Conditioned Diffusion Model. CoRR (2023)
Paola Raquel Peña, Philip R. Doyle, Diego Garaialde, Yunhan Wu, Rachel McDonnell, Benjamin R. Cowan
Human Speakers Help Machine Listeners To account For Visual Asymmetries in Dialogue. CUI (2023)
Ilaria Torre, Anna Deichler, Matthew Nicholson, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
To smile or not to smile: The effect of mismatched emotional expressions in a Human-Robot cooperative task. RO-MAN (2022)
Darragh Higgins, Katja Zibrek, João P. Cabral, Dónal Egan, Rachel McDonnell
Sympathy for the digital: Influence of synthetic voice on affinity, social presence and empathy for photorealistic virtual humans. Comput. Graph. 104 (2022)
Vladimir Marochko, Richard Reilly, Rachel McDonnell, Luca Longo
A Survey on the Application of Virtual Reality in Event-Related Potential Research. CD-MAKE (2022)
Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Julien Pettré, Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell
Proximity in VR: The Importance of Character Attractiveness and Participant Gender. VR Workshops (2022)
Eduard Zell, Rachel McDonnell
Compact Facial Landmark Layouts for Performance Capture. Comput. Graph. Forum 41 (2) (2022)
Lauren E. Buck, Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rachel McDonnell
The Effect of Spatial Audio on the Virtual Representation of Personal Space. VR Workshops (2022)
Dan Bigioi, Hugh Jordan, Rishabh Jain, Rachel McDonnell, Peter Corcoran
Pose-Aware Speech Driven Facial Landmark Animation Pipeline for Automated Dubbing. IEEE Access 10 (2022)
Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
3D face-model reconstruction from a single image: A feature aggregation approach using hierarchical transformer with weak supervision. Neural Networks 156 (2022)
Sean Thomas, Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis
Investigating how speech and animation realism influence the perceived personality of virtual characters and agents. VR (2022)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching. AAMAS (2021)
Shubhajit Basak, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
Learning Accurate Head Pose for Consumer Technology From 3D Synthetic Data. ICCE (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching. CoRR (2021)
Rachel McDonnell, Katja Zibrek, Emma Carrigan, Rozenn Dahyot
Model for predicting perception of facial action unit activation using virtual humans. Comput. Graph. 100 (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael McKay, Rachel McDonnell
Facial Feature Manipulation for Trait Portrayal in Realistic and Cartoon-Rendered Characters. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 18 (4) (2021)
Darragh Higgins, Rachel McDonnell
A Preliminary Investigation of Avatar Use in Video-Conferencing. VR Workshops (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cédric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell
Human or Robot?: Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents. IVA (2021)
Darragh Higgins, Rebecca Fribourg, Rachel McDonnell
Remotely Perceived: Investigating the Influence of Valence on Self-Perception and Social Experience for Dyadic Video-Conferencing With Personalized Avatars. Frontiers Virtual Real. 2 (2021)
Rebecca Fribourg, Etienne Peillard, Rachel McDonnell
Mirror, Mirror on My Phone: Investigating Dimensions of Self-Face Perception Induced by Augmented Reality Filters. ISMAR (2021)
Rachel McDonnell, Bilge Mutlu
Appearance. CoRR (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Neff
Evaluating Study Design and Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Hand Tracking Loss. SAP (2021)
Katja Zibrek, João P. Cabral, Rachel McDonnell
Does Synthetic Voice alter Social Response to a Photorealistic Character in Virtual Reality? MIG (2021)
Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Emma Carrigan, Iolanda Leite, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
Dimensional perception of a 'smiling McGurk effect'. ACII (2021)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching. Comput. Animat. Virtual Worlds 32 (3-4) (2021)
Darragh Higgins, Dónal Egan, Rebecca Fribourg, Benjamin R. Cowan, Rachel McDonnell
Ascending from the valley: Can state-of-the-art photorealism avoid the uncanny? SAP (2021)
Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Katarina Domijan, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
The Effect of Audio-Visual Smiles on Social Influence in a Cooperative Human-Agent Interaction Task. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 28 (6) (2021)
Dónal Egan, George Fletcher, Yiguo Qiao, Darren Cosker, Rachel McDonnell
How to train your dog: Neural enhancement of quadruped animations. MIG (2021)
Shubhajit Basak, Peter Corcoran, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
Learning 3D Head Pose From Synthetic Data: A Semi-Supervised Approach. IEEE Access 9 (2021)
Eduard Zell, Katja Zibrek, Xueni Pan, Marco Gillies, Rachel McDonnell
From Perception to Interaction with Virtual Characters. Eurographics (Tutorials) (2020)
Pisut Wisessing, Rachel McDonnell
Evalu-light: A practical approach for evaluating character lighting in real-time. SAP (2020)
Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas W. Cunningham, John Dingliana, Rachel McDonnell
Enlighten Me: Importance of Brightness and Shadow for Character Emotion and Appeal. ACM Trans. Graph. 39 (3) (2020)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and their Perceptual Importance. CoRR (2020)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Adversarial gesture generation with realistic gesture phasing. Comput. Graph. 89 (2020)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and their Perceptual Importance. IVA (2020)
Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettré, Rachel McDonnell
Walk this way: Evaluating the effect of perceived gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality. VR Workshops (2020)
Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettré, Rachel McDonnell
The Effect of Gender and Attractiveness of Motion on Proximity in Virtual Reality. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 17 (4) (2020)
Emma Carrigan, Eduard Zell, Cédric Guiard, Rachel McDonnell
Expression Packing: As-Few-As-Possible Training Expressions for Blendshape Transfer. Comput. Graph. Forum 39 (2) (2020)
Shubhajit Basak, Hossein Javidnia, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat
Methodology for Building Synthetic Datasets with Virtual Humans. CoRR (2020)
Emma Carrigan, Katja Zibrek, Rozenn Dahyot, Rachel McDonnell
Investigating perceptually based models to predict importance of facial blendshapes. MIG (2020)
Katja Zibrek, Sean Martin, Rachel McDonnell
Is Photorealism Important for Perception of Expressive Virtual Humans in Virtual Reality? ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 16 (3) (2019)
Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
Social presence and place illusion are affected by photorealism in embodied VR. MIG (2019)
Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Rachel McDonnell, Katarina Domijan, Killian McCabe, Naomi Harte
The Effect of Multimodal Emotional Expression and Agent Appearance on Trust in Human-Agent Interaction. MIG (2019)
Eduard Zell, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
Perception of virtual characters. SIGGRAPH Courses (2019)
Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell
Multi-objective adversarial gesture generation. MIG (2019)
Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas W. Cunningham, Rachel McDonnell
A psychophysical model to control the brightness and key-to-fill ratio in CG cartoon character lighting. SAP (2019)
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
Investigating the use of recurrent motion modelling for speech gesture generation. IVA (2018)
Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
The Effect of Realistic Appearance of Virtual Characters in Immersive Environments - Does the Character's Personality Play a Role? IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 24 (4) (2018)
Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell
A perceptual study on the manipulation of facial features for trait portrayal in virtual agents. IVA (2018)
Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Killian McCabe, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte
Survival at the Museum: A Cooperation Experiment with Emotionally Expressive Virtual Characters. ICMI (2018)
Emma Carrigan, Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell, Quentin Avril
A Preliminary Investigation into the Impact of Training for Example-Based Facial Blendshape Creation. Eurographics (Short Papers) (2018)
Ylva Ferstl, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
Facial Features of Non-player Creatures Can Influence Moral Decisions in Video Games. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 15 (1) (2017)
Katja Zibrek, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
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. SAP (2017)
Kerstin Ruhland, Mukta Prasad, Rachel McDonnell
Data-Driven Approach to Synthesizing Facial Animation Using Motion Capture. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 37 (4) (2017)
João Paulo Cabral, Benjamin R. Cowan, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
The Influence of Synthetic Voice on the Evaluation of a Virtual Character. INTERSPEECH (2017)
Pisut Wisessing, John Dingliana, Rachel McDonnell
Perception of lighting and shading for animated virtual characters. SAP (2016)
Ylva Ferstl, Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
Do I trust you, abstract creature?: a study on personality perception of abstract virtual faces. SAP (2016)
Timothy Costigan, Anton Gerdelan, Emma Carrigan, Rachel McDonnell
Improving blendshape performance for crowds with GPU and GPGPU techniques. MIG (2016)
Emma Carrigan, Elena Kokkinara, F. Gheorghe, M. Houlier, Stéphane Donikian, Rachel McDonnell
Crowd appearance affects player performance in game combat scenarios. MIG (2016)
Timothy Costigan, Rachel McDonnell
Speech independent emotion transfer for virtual faces. FAA (2015)
Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
The Effect of Animation Realism on Face Ownership and Engagement. FAA (2015)
Kerstin Ruhland, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
Perception of personality through eye gaze of realistic and cartoon models. SAP (2015)
Elena Kokkinara, Rachel McDonnell
Animation realism affects perceived character appeal of a self-virtual face. MIG (2015)
Eduard Zell, Carlos Aliaga, Adrián Jarabo, Katja Zibrek, Diego Gutierrez, Rachel McDonnell, Mario Botsch
To stylize or not to stylize?: the effect of shape and material stylization on the perception of computer-generated faces. ACM Trans. Graph. 34 (6) (2015)
Kerstin Ruhland, Christopher E. Peters, Sean Andrist, Jeremy B. Badler, Norman I. Badler, Michael Gleicher, Bilge Mutlu, Rachel McDonnell
A Review of Eye Gaze in Virtual Agents, Social Robotics and HCI: Behaviour Generation, User Interaction and Perception. Comput. Graph. Forum 34 (6) (2015)
Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
Evaluating the Uncanny valley with the implicit association test. SAP (2015)
Katja Zibrek, Ludovic Hoyet, Kerstin Ruhland, Rachel McDonnell
Exploring the Effect of Motion Type and Emotions on the Perception of Gender in Virtual Humans. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 12 (3) (2015)
Kerstin Ruhland, Sean Andrist, Jeremy B. Badler, Christopher E. Peters, Norman I. Badler, Michael Gleicher, Bilge Mutlu, Rachel McDonnell
Look me in the Eyes: A Survey of Eye and Gaze Animation for Virtual Agents and Artificial Systems. Eurographics (State of the Art Reports) (2014)
Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell
Does render style affect perception of personality in virtual humans? SAP (2014)
Timothy Costigan, Mukta Prasad, Rachel McDonnell
Facial retargeting using neural networks. MIG (2014)
Cathy Ennis, Ludovic Hoyet, Arjan Egges, Rachel McDonnell
Emotion Capture: Emotionally Expressive Characters for Games. MIG (2013)
Katja Zibrek, Ludovic Hoyet, Kerstin Ruhland, Rachel McDonnell
Evaluating the effect of emotion on gender recognition in virtual humans. SAP (2013)
Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O'Sullivan
Push it real: perceiving causality in virtual interactions. ACM Trans. Graph. 31 (4) (2012)
Rachel McDonnell
Appealing Virtual Humans. MIG (2012)
Rachel McDonnell, Martin Breidt, Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Render me real?: investigating the effect of render style on the perception of animated virtual humans. ACM Trans. Graph. 31 (4) (2012)
Ludovic Hoyet, Kenneth Ryall, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O'Sullivan
Sleight of hand: perception of finger motion from reduced marker sets. I3D (2012)
Rachel McDonnell, Veronica Sundstedt
Introduction to special issue SAP 2012. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 9 (3) (2012)
Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O'Sullivan
Seeing is believing: body motion dominates in multisensory conversations. ACM Trans. Graph. 29 (4) (2010)
Rachel McDonnell, Martin Breidt
Face reality: investigating the Uncanny Valley for virtual faces. SIGGRAPH ASIA (Sketches) (2010)
Martin Prazák, Rachel McDonnell, Carol O'Sullivan
Perceptual evaluation of human animation timewarping. SIGGRAPH ASIA (Sketches) (2010)
Rachel McDonnell, Carol O'Sullivan
Movements and voices affect perceived sex of virtual conversers. APGV (2010)
Martin Prazák, Ladislav Kavan, Rachel McDonnell, Rachel Dobbyn, Carol O'Sullivan
Moving crowds: a linear animation system for crowd simulation. SI3D (2010)
Rachel McDonnell
Facial animation for real-time conversing groups. FAA (2010)
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Jörg, Joanna McHugh, Fiona N. Newell, Carol O'Sullivan
Investigating the role of body shape on the perception of emotion. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 6 (3) (2009)
Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis, Simon Dobbyn, Carol O'Sullivan
Talking bodies: Sensitivity to desynchronization of conversations. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 6 (4) (2009)
Rachel McDonnell, Michéal Larkin, Benjamín Hernández, Isaac Rudomín, Carol O'Sullivan
Eye-catching crowds: saliency based selective variation. ACM Trans. Graph. 28 (3) (2009)
Rachel McDonnell, Sophie Jörg, Jessica K. Hodgins, Fiona N. Newell, Carol O'Sullivan
Evaluating the effect of motion and body shape on the perceived sex of virtual characters. ACM Trans. Appl. Percept. 5 (4) (2009)

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