Digital Humans

Digital humans are a rising technology with use cases spanning clinic-based intake to improved online training. These realistic digital people feature highly customizable characteristics like language, voice, personality, facial features and even body language.  

Digital humas are particularly adept at empathetic interactions. When speaking with a digital human, people will find the avatar interacts in a mood and tone similar to the person it is interacting with. When a person is excited, the digital human will be excitedly interested in the conversation; conversely, when the person is very serious, the avatar will act similarly reserved.  This type of reflective interaction can be especially useful when biased needs to be removed and objectivity is paramount.  

Digital humans are being tested in a clinical setting with the avatar interacting with patients as seen in this video. 

We are interested in additional use cases like incident investigations where the digital human can be consistently objective in asking questions as compared to a human. For more information on Digital Humans use and research, contact Kaysey Aguilar at Kaysey_nicole@tamu.edu or 956.564.0304.