Elodie Etienne Postdoctoral Researcher
Publications

Scientific production

Peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings, theses, and manuscripts under review. Conference presentations and posters are listed under Talks & seminars. Names in bold indicate authorship.

Peer-reviewed journal articles · 2

2026Bettahi, L., Remacle, A., Schyns, M., Etienne, É., Etienne, A.-M., & Leclercq, A.-L. (2026). Validating virtual reality for public speaking research and intervention: comparing anxiety, voice, and fluency responses to real and virtual audiences. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 7, 1755571. doi:10.3389/frvir.2026.1755571
2023Etienne, E., Leclercq, A.-L., Remacle, A., Dessart, L., & Schyns, M. (2023). Perception of avatars' nonverbal behaviors in virtual reality. Psychology & Marketing, 40(11), 2464-2481. doi:10.1002/mar.21871

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings · 8

2026Etienne, E., Ochs, M., Loubes, J.-M., & Clavel, C. (2026). A Methodology to Compare Real and LLM-Simulated Multimodal Interactions: The Case of Gender Bias. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI'26). ACM. doi:10.1145/3776574.3831157
2026Etienne, E., Cho, J., Jung, T., & Schyns, M. (2026). A Virtual Reality Approach to Public Speaking Training in Higher Education. IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2026), October 2026, Paphos, Cyprus.
2026Saufnay, S., Etienne, E., Vanmechelen, T., & Schyns, M. (2026). Speech Emotion Recognition for Public Speaking Training in Virtual Reality. IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (pp. 168-172). IEEE Computer Society.
2025Etienne, E., Remacle, A., Leclercq, A.-L., & Schyns, M. (2025). EVE: Emotional Validated Expressions, an acted audiovisual corpus. Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'25) (Article 42, pp. 1-4). ACM. doi:10.1145/3717511.3749303
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2025Ristorcelli, M., Etienne, E., Schyns, M., Casanova, R., & Ochs, M. (2025). Evaluating multimodal behavioral features for public speaking assessment in virtual reality. Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'25) (Article 40, pp. 1-4). ACM. doi:10.1145/3717511.3749301
2024Etienne, E., Ristorcelli, M., Saufnay, S., Quilez, A., Casanova, R., Schyns, M., & Ochs, M. (2024). A systematic review on the socio-affective perception of IVAs' multi-modal behaviour. Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'24) (pp. 1-10). doi:10.1145/3652988.3673943
2024Saufnay, S., Etienne, E., & Schyns, M. (2024). Improvement of Public Speaking Skills Using Virtual Reality: Development of a Training System. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) (pp. 122-124). doi:10.1109/ACIIW63320.2024.00025
2021Vachaudez, A., Koubi, C., Cornelis, G., & Etienne, E. (2021). Comment les utilisateurs d'assistants vocaux maintiennent-ils leur utilisation de la technologie dans le temps ? Actes du 20ème Colloque sur le Marketing Digital.

Periodical bulletin · 1

2021Menjot, P., Remacle, A., Schyns, M., Etienne, E., & Leclercq, A.-L. (2021). Une audience virtuelle pour l'entraînement de la fluence de parole lors d'une prise de parole en public : Étude pilote. Cahiers de l'ASELF, 18(2).

Theses · 2

2025Etienne, E. (2025). Virtual reality and analytics to enhance communication skills: A multidisciplinary approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Liège.
2019Etienne, E. (2019). Elementary statistical methods of cryptography. Master dissertation, University of Liège.

Manuscripts under review · 2

2026Etienne, E., Ochs, M., & Clavel, C. (2026). A Behaviour Graph-Based Method for Evaluating Gender Bias Amplification in LLM-Augmented Multimodal Interaction Data. Manuscript submitted to the 41st Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
2026Cho, J., Etienne, E., Schyns, M., Jung, T., & tom Dieck, M. (2026). Virtual reality learning experiences in higher education: an affordances and gratifications perspective. Manuscript submitted for publication in Information Technology & People.