It's not merely about the laughs when we observe a character's obsessive tendencies or their unique interactions with inanimate objects. These attributes may not only serve as comedic elements but also resonate with genuine psychological conditions covered in TV shows and films that aim to ...
Other characters with more common psychological symptoms like anxiety can be intensely relatable. Note: "Crazy" anime characters aren't always portrayed in the most sensitive or realistic of ways. While these characters are engaging, they're often based on harmful stereotypes. In...
Interactive virtual reality applications have lately been used as a complementary tool in the treatment of people with different kinds of psychological disorders. A number of these projects would benefit from a more realistic behavior of virtual characters. In this paper we describe our ongoing work ...
'Gender inconsistency' was removed from the Mental and Behavioral Disorders category and moved to the category 'Sexual health-related cases' because gender inconsistency is not considered a mental illness. A group of people with a gender identity, or sexual orientation that is different from most ...
female characters were more likely to be portrayed with exaggerated, and often objectified, sexiness. Further, violence and sexiness was paired more frequently for female characters than violence and muscular physiques for the male characters. The potential influence these negative portrayals could have...
“non-sexualized” heroine, or no video game; then completed an online questionnaire. Female self-efficacy was negatively affected by game play with the sexualized female character. Results cautiously suggest that playing a sexualized video game heroine unfavorably influenced people’s beliefs about...
Scores for communication and attention to detail were significantly correlated with the reading times for congruent sentences embedded in TD episodes. We found no significant correlations between total AQ scores and other psychological measures, readability, or response time or accuracy in recognition ...
74Altmetric Metrics Abstract Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is referred to as artificial intelligence (AI)-generated media. These techniques offer novel opportunities for creating interactions with digita...
In particular, it is possible to observe intense personality disorders and defense mechanisms in the characters of Emily Bronte, who is claimed to have had some psychological problems. Wuthering Heights, Bronte's first and only novel, is a kind of bridge between psychology...
Recent progress of interactive techniques brought intuitive and physical interaction with characters in entertainment field such as console games. Conventional motion generation method requires preparing an enormous number of motion patterns in order to implement various reactions of characters. Therefore, for...