Advances in Virtual Agents and Affective Computing for the Understanding and Remediation of Social Cognitive Disorders

• Main Author: Jean-Claude Martin (auth)
• Other Authors: Philip L. Jackson (auth), Ali Oker (auth), Ouriel Grynszpan (auth), Eric Brunet-Gouet (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; virtual reality; social cognition; Mental Disorders; Schizophrenia; augmented reality; Avatar; autism; Affective Computing; cognitive training
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Advances in modern sciences occur thanks to within-fields discoveries as well as confrontation of concepts and methods from separated, sometimes distant, domains of knowledge. For instance, the fields of psychology and psychopathology benefited from accumulated contributions from cognitive neuroscie...