Enhancing Nonverbal Communication Through Virtual Human Technology: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Analay Perez   ¹ , MA ;   Michael D Fetters   ² , MD, MPH, MA ;   John W Creswell   ² , PhD ;   Mark Scerbo   ³ , PhD ;   Frederick W Kron   ⁴ , MD ;   Richard Gonzalez   ^{5 *} , PhD ;   Lawrence An   ⁶ , MD ;   Masahito Jimbo   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Predrag Klasnja   ^{8 *} , PhD ;   Timothy C Guetterman   ² , PhD

¹ Department of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States

² Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

³ Department of Psychology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States

⁴ Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁷ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States

⁸ School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

*these authors contributed equally