An Experiment on Public Speaking Anxiety in Response to Three Different Types of Virtual Audience

@article{Pertaub2002AnEO,
  title={An Experiment on Public Speaking Anxiety in Response to Three Different Types of Virtual Audience},
  author={David-Paul Pertaub and Mel Slater and Chris Barker},
  journal={Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments},
  year={2002},
  volume={11},
  pages={68-78}
}

• David-Paul Pertaub, Mel Slater, Chris Barker
• Published in Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments 2002
• DOI:10.1162/105474602317343668

This paper describes an experiment to assess the anxiety responses of people giving 5 min. presentations to virtual audiences consisting of eight male avatars. There were three different types of audience behavior: an emotionally neutral audience that remained static throughout the talk, a positive audience that exhibited friendly and appreciative behavior towards the speaker, and a negative audience that exhibited hostile and bored expressions throughout the talk. A second factor was immersion… CONTINUE READING

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