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Misha Sra

Former Research Affiliate
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AI Comes Out of the Closet: Using AI-Generated Virtual Characters to Help Individuals Practice LGBTQIA+ Advocacy

AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
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Living Memories: AI-generated characters as interactive digital mementos

In collaboration with NTT DATAEvery human culture has developed practices and rituals associated with remembering those who have died. We a…
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Txt2Vid: Ultra-Low Bitrate Compression of Talking-Head Videos via Text

We present a novel video compression pipeline, called Txt2Vid, which dramatically reduces data transmission rates by compressing webcam vid…
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AI-generated Characters for Learning and Wellbeing

Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
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AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning

This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
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Towards a Congruent Hybrid Reality without Experiential Artifacts

​Situated VR: Towards a Congruent Hybrid RealityThe vision of Extended Reality (XR) systems is living in a hybrid reality or "Metaverse" wh…
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MoveU

MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR).  The device in…
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Cognitive Illusions and VR

This work explores the design of techniques based on the cognitive illusion of "inattentional blindness" which is a failure to notice somet…
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Learning to dance in VR

Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those in…
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SnowballVR

Multiplayer virtual reality games introduce the problem of variations in the physical size and shape of each user’s space for mapping into …