PROFILE
Evania Lina Fasya is a PhD candidate at the Human Media Interaction group at the University of Twente.
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I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2013 at the University of Indonesia. I had been working in the software development industry as a software tester for several years during and after my bachelor’s degree until 2015 when I started my master’s study in Human Media Interaction (Interaction Technology) at the University of Twente. For my master thesis, I created an automatic question-generation system with Dr. Mariët Theune as my supervisor. The system made use of two semantic tasks: Semantic Role Labeling and Stanford Dependency; and it can process text as the input and produce relevant question & answer pairs as the output. These question & answer pairs can be used to provide virtual humans with the knowledge to answer people’s questions. I received my MSc degree in 2017.
In 2018, I started to work at the Comparative Psychology & Affective Neuroscience (CoPAN) lab at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University as a research assistant in the project "emotion mimicry in high & low socially anxious individuals" with Dr. Mariska Kret and Dr. Esther van den Bos as my supervisors. The project makes use of virtual humans to study the effect of social anxiety in mimicry and trust.
In 2020, I started my PhD project with the topic "virtual exposure training program for public speaking anxiety" at the Human Media Interaction department together with the CoPAN lab; with Prof. Dr. Dirk Heylen and Dr. Mariska Kret as my promotors, and Dr. Esther van den Bos as my supervisor. This PhD project aims to create a virtual exposure training program that can reduce anxiety during public speaking by taking into account social decision-making capacities and the perception of emotional expressions.