The Virtual AudienceThe Virtual Audience

Britt Carr, Instructional Design and Britt Carr, Instructional Design and Technology SpecialistTechnology Specialist

Gail Campbell, ManagerGail Campbell, Manager

Advanced Learning TechnologiesAdvanced Learning TechnologiesMiami UniversityMiami University

Oxford, OhioOxford, Ohio

Virtual AudienceVirtual Audience• Provides desensitization to audience distractionsProvides desensitization to audience distractions• Uses webcam and mic as eyes and earsUses webcam and mic as eyes and ears• A.I. reacts to user’s movements and soundsA.I. reacts to user’s movements and sounds• Projected life-sizeProjected life-size

Virtual AudienceVirtual Audience• Audience protocol lifecycleAudience protocol lifecycle• Represented by individual video clips Represented by individual video clips

assembled “on-the-fly”, during student’s assembled “on-the-fly”, during student’s performance by Adobe Flashperformance by Adobe Flash

Virtual AudienceVirtual Audience• Virtual Audience randomizes 14 distractions Virtual Audience randomizes 14 distractions

(cough, cell, whisper, etc.) during performance(cough, cell, whisper, etc.) during performance

ContactContact

Britt CarrBritt Carr– carrbc@muohio.edu

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