News Tilburg University
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European Values Study Team Tilburg successful in grant acquisitions
15th January 2024The European Values Study Team Tilburg (Department of Sociology, TSB) has recently secured multiple grants to collect and make comparative social science survey data widely available for the scientific community as well as for policymakers, education, and the general public.
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Hans Haans new chairman of the University Council
12th January 2024The University Council has chosen a new chairman: on March 1, 2024, Hans Haans will take over from Rien Wijnhoven.
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Development of facial expressions in virtual human agents can help healthcare and education
10th January 2024Technology, such as computer graphics and machine learning, has helped to develop virtual agents that closely resemble humans in appearance and show increasingly human-like communicative behaviors. In her dissertation, Julija Vaitonyte did research on people’s perceptions of the appearance and behavior of virtual agents.