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	Year	Authors	Title
	2022	Lauren E. Buck, Mauricio Flores Vargas, Rachel McDonnell	The Effect of Spatial Audio on the Virtual Representation of Personal Space IEEE VR Workshop on Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments (SIVE)
	2022	Eduard Zell, Rachel McDonnell	Compact Facial Landmark Layouts for Performance Capture Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics)
	2022	Sean Thomas, Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Cathy Ennis	Investigating how speech and animation realism influence the perceived personality of virtual characters and agents IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR)
	2022	Darragh Higgins, Katja Zibrek, Joao P. Cabral, Donal Egan, Rachel McDonnell	Sympathy for the digital: influence of synthetic voice on affinity, social presence and empathy for photorealistic virtual humans Computers and Graphics, 104, pp116-128-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2022.03.009
	2022	Torre, I. and Deichler, A. and Nicholson, M. and McDonnell, R. and Harte, N.	To smile or not to smile: The effect of mismatched emotional expressions in a Human-Robot cooperative task RO-MAN 2022 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: Social, Asocial, and Antisocial Robots, pp8-13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900592
	2022	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 Transactions on Affective Computing, pp1-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3213269
	2022	Vladimir Marochko, Richard Reilly, Rachel McDonnell, Luca Longo	A Survey on the Application of Virtual Reality in Event-Related Potential Research Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13480 LNCS, pp256-269. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14463-9_17
	2022	Zibrek, K. and Niay, B. and Olivier, A.-H. and Pettre, J. and Hoyet, L. and McDonnell, R.	Proximity in VR: The Importance of Character Attractiveness and Participant Gender Proceedings - 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, VRW 2022, pp672-673. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00187
	2022	Lauren Buck, Rachel McDonnell	Security and Privacy in the Metaverse: The Threat of the Digital Human CHI EA ¿22, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Novel Challenges of Safety, Security and Privacy in Extended Reality
	2022	Basak, S. and Corcoran, P. and McDonnell, R. and Schukat, M.	3D face-model reconstruction from a single image: A feature aggregation approach using hierarchical transformer with weak supervision Neural Networks, 156, pp108-122. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2022.09.019
	2022	Torre, I. and Holk, S. and Yadollahi, E. and Leite, I. and McDonnell, R. and Harte, N.	Smiling in the Face and Voice of Avatars and Robots: Evidence for a ‘smiling McGurk Effect’ IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, pp1-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3213269
	2022	Bigioi, D. and Jordan, H. and Jain, R. and Mcdonnell, R. and Corcoran, P.	Pose-Aware Speech Driven Facial Landmark Animation Pipeline for Automated Dubbing IEEE Access, 10, pp133357-133369. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3231137
	2021	Donal Egan, George Fletcher, Yiguo Qiao, Darren Cosker, Rachel McDonnell	How to train your dog: Neural enhancement of quadruped animations ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3487983.3488293
	2021	Rachel McDonnell, Katja Zibrek, Emma Carrigan, Rozenn Dahyot	Model for predicting perception of facial action unit activation using virtual humans Computers and Graphics, 100, pp81-92. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2021.07.022
	2021	Darragh Higgins, Donal Egan, Rebecca Fribourg, Benjamin Cowan, Rachel McDonnell	Ascending from the valley: Can state-of-the-art photorealism avoid the uncanny? SAP '21 Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3474451.3476242
	2021	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Neff	Evaluating Study Design and Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Hand Tracking Loss ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3474451.3476235
	2021	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell	ExpressGesture: Expressive gesture generation from speech through database matching Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 32(3-4). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cav.2016
	2021	Katja Zibrek, Joao Cabral, Rachel McDonnell	Does Synthetic Voice alter Social Response to a Photorealistic Character in Virtual Reality? 14th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3487983.3488296
	2021	Ylva Ferstl, Sean Thomas, Cedric Guiard, Cathy Ennis, Rachel McDonnell	Human or Robot?: Investigating voice, appearance and gesture motion realism of conversational social agents ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), pp76-83. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3472306.3478338
	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 in Virtual Reality, 2(60)
	2021	Rebecca Fribourg, Etienne Peillard, Rachel McDonnell	Mirror, Mirror on My Phone: Investigating Dimensions of Self-Face Perception Induced by Augmented Reality Filters IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), pp470-478
	2021	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell	It's A Match! Gesture Generation Using Expressive Parameter Matching AAMAS '21: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pp1495–1497
	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, pp37557 - 37573
	2021	Ylva Ferstl, Michael McKay and Rachel McDonnell	Facial feature manipulation for trait portrayal in realistic and cartoon-rendered characters ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP),, 18(4), pp1-8
	2021	Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Emma Carrigan, Iolanda Leite, Rachel McDonnell and Naomi Harte	Dimensional perception of a ‘smiling McGurk effect’ 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
	2021	Rachel McDonnell, Bilge Mutlu	Appearance Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents
	2021	Basak, S. and Khan, F. and McDonnell, R. and Schukat, M.	Learning Accurate Head Pose for Consumer Technology from 3D Synthetic Data Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, 2021-January(9427768). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCE50685.2021.9427768
	2021	McDonnell, R. and Zibrek, K. and Carrigan, E. and Dahyot, R.	Model for predicting perception of facial action unit activation using virtual humans[Formula presented] Computers and Graphics (Pergamon), 100, pp81-92. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2021.07.022
	2021	Darragh Higgins, Rachel McDonnell	A preliminary investigation of avatar use in video-conferencing Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)(9419089), pp540-541. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00152
	2020	Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Helene Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettre and Rachel McDonnell	The effect of gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 17(4). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3419985
	2020	Shubhajit Basak, Hossein Javidnia, Faisal Khan, Rachel McDonnell, Michael Schukat	Methodology for Building Synthetic Datasets with Virtual Humans 31st Irish Signals and Systems Conference, ISSC 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSC49989.2020.9180188
	2020	Katja Zibrek, Benjamin Niay, Anne-Helene Olivier, Ludovic Hoyet, Julien Pettre and Rachel McDonnell	Walk this way: Evaluating the effect of perceived gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops , pp169-170. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00036
	2020	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell	Understanding the Predictability of Gesture Parameters from Speech and their Perceptual Importance International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3383652.3423882
	2020	Wisessing P, McDonnell R	Evalu-light: A practical approach for evaluating character lighting in real-time . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3385955.3407937
	2020	Emma Carrigan, Katja Zibrek, Rozenn Dahyot, Rachel McDonnell	Investigating perceptually based models to predict importance of facial blendshapes ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3424636.3426904
	2020	Emma Carrigan, Eduard Zell, Cedric Guiard, Rachel McDonnell	Expression Packing: As-Few-As-Possible Training Expressions for Blendshape Transfer Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics), 39(2), pp219-233. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13925
	2020	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell	Adversarial gesture generation with realistic gesture phasing Computers and Graphics, 89, pp117-130. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2020.04.007
	2019	Katja Zibrek, Sean Martin, Rachel McDonnell	Is photorealism important for perception of expressive virtual humans in virtual reality? ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 16(3). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3349609
	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 ACM Conference on Motion, Interaction, and Games. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3359566.3360065
	2019	Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell	Social presence and place illusion are affected by photorealism in embodied VR ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3359566.3360064
	2019	Ylva Ferstl, Michael Neff, Rachel McDonnell	Multi-objective adversarial gesture generation ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3359566.3360053
	2019	Pisut Wisessing, Katja Zibrek, Douglas Cunningham, Rachel McDonnell	A psychophysical model to control the brightness and key-to-fill ratio in CG cartoon character lighting ACM Symposium on Applied Perception. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3343036.3343127
	2019	Eduard Zell, Katja Zibrek, Rachel McDonnell	Perception of Virtual Characters SIGGRAPH Courses, pp21.1-21.17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3305366.3328101
	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 Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 224(4), pp1681-1690 . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2794638
	2018	Emma Carrigan, Ludovic Hoyet, Rachel McDonnell, Quentin Avril	A Preliminary Investigation into the Impact of Training for Example-Based Facial Blendshape Creation Eurographics 2018 - Short Papers
	2018	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell	Investigating the use of recurrent motion modelling for speech gesture generation 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp93-98. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267898
	2018	Ylva Ferstl, Rachel McDonnell	A perceptual study on the manipulation of facial features for trait portrayal in virtual agents 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, pp281-288. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267891
	2018	Ilaria Torre, Emma Carrigan, Killian McCabe, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte	Survival at the museum: A cooperation experiment with emotionally expressive avatars International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), pp423-427
	2018	Carrigan E, Hoyet L, McDonnell R, Avril Q	A preliminary investigation into the impact of training for example-based facial blendshape creation , pp49-52. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/egs.20181042
	2018	Zibrek, K. and Kokkinara, E. and McDonnell, R.	The effect of realistic appearance of virtual characters in immersive environments - Does the character's personality play a role? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 24(4), pp1681-1690. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2794638

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