MACH, My Automated Conversation coacH, is a system for people to practice social interactions in face-to-face scenarios. MACH consists of a 3D character that can see, hear, and make its own decisions in real time. The system was validated in the context of job interviews with 90 MIT undergraduate students. Students who interacted with MACH demonstrated significant performance improvement compared to the students in the control group.

Publications:

M. E. Hoque, M. Courgeon, B. Mutlu, J-C. Martin, R. W. Picard, MACH: My Automated Conversation coacH, Proceedings of 1th ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), September 2013.