Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What if the future of mental health care didn’t require a therapist in the room—but a virtual coach instead? This talk dives into the evolving world of virtual humans in VR healthcare, offering a meta-review of how they’ve been designed, studied, and deployed. Blending research and storytelling, it draws on a large-scale user study of a gamified, automated VR mental health consultation to explore how affective character design can reshape user trust, engagement, and physiological responses in VR therapy.
Speakers:
* Shu Wei
What if the future of mental health care didn’t require a therapist in the room—but a virtual coach instead? This talk dives into the evolving world of virtual humans in VR healthcare, offering a meta-review of how they’ve been designed, studied, and deployed. Blending research and storytelling, it draws on a large-scale user study of a gamified, automated VR mental health consultation to explore how affective character design can reshape user trust, engagement, and physiological responses in VR therapy.
Speakers:
* Shu Wei
