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Officer Garcia: a virtual human for mediating eyewitness identification

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An analysis of court cases has revealed that the mistaken identification of the wrong person by victims and witnesses of a crime is the single most common error leading to the arrest and conviction of innocent people [Wells et al. 2006]. Recognizing the role of mistaken identification in erroneous conviction, a growing number of states and police departments have reformed their eyewitness identification procedures. In this paper, we investigate a new procedural reform: the use of a virtual officer who does not know the identity of the suspect in the lineup and therefore cannot bias the witness toward false identification.

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      VRST '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology
      November 2007
      259 pages
      ISBN:9781595938633
      DOI:10.1145/1315184
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      2. embodied conversational agents
      3. human-computer interaction
      4. virtual humans
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      • (2010)A Virtual Environment to Test Police and Public Awareness of Anti-Social Behaviour IndicatorsInternational Journal of Police Science & Management10.1350/ijps.2010.12.4.19612:4(548-566)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2010
      • (2008)Virtual Human versus Human Administration of Photographic LineupsIEEE Computer Graphics and Applications10.1109/MCG.2008.12528:6(65-75)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2008

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