Avatar realism and social interaction quality in virtual reality

Roth, Daniel; Lugrin, Jean-Luc; Galakhov, Dmitri; Hofmann, Arvid; Bente, Gary; Latoschik, Marc Erich; Fuhrmann, Arnulph

doi:10.1109/vr.2016.7504761

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“…In particular, they demonstrated that embodying users in anthropomorphic and realistic avatars also increase their own sense of presence [24], and more generally enhance their whole VR experience [3,32]. For instance, it was demonstrated that changing the avatar representation had a direct effect on the quality of social interaction in shared VEs, and more precisely that social interactions tend to be impeded with non-realistic avatars [31].…”

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Studying the Sense of Embodiment in VR Shared Experiences

Fribourg¹,

Argelaguet²,

Hoyet³

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

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Studying the Sense of Embodiment in VR Shared Experiences

Fribourg¹,

Argelaguet²,

Hoyet³

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)

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“…It indicates an impact of the appearance of the other's avatar on self-perception towards the own body. The latter is known to be of a certain plasticity if the own avatar's appearance is changed with respect to, e.g., gender , posture [De la Peña et al 2010], figure [Normand et al 2011], skin color [Peck et al 2013, age and size [Banakou et al 2013], or degree of realism and anthropomorphism Lugrin et al 2015;Roth et al 2016a]. Our results indicate that in social interactions in VR, the appearance of the other's avatars additionally influences our self-perception.…”

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“…Various effects of avatar embodiment and the change of the avatar appearance are known and are studied in fully immersive VR systems (e.g., [Spanlang et al 2014]) as well as in partly immersive VR systems (e.g., ). Avatar variants explored include change of gender , posture [De la Peña et al 2010], figure [Normand et al 2011], skin color [Peck et al 2013], age and size [Banakou et al 2013], or degree of realism and anthropomorphism Lugrin et al 2015;Roth et al 2016a]. Such studies vary avatar appearance as well as stimulus presentation (e.g., degree of immersion, user perspective) to find out the effects of our own avatars and their presentation on said psychophysical effects.…”

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The effect of avatar realism in immersive social virtual realities

Latoschik

Roth

Gall

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology

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This paper investigates the effect of avatar realism on embodiment and social interactions in Virtual Reality (VR). We compared abstract avatar representations based on a wooden mannequin with high fidelity avatars generated from photogrammetry 3D scan methods. Both avatar representations were alternately applied to participating users and to the virtual counterpart in dyadic social encounters to examine the impact of avatar realism on selfembodiment and social interaction quality. Users were immersed in a virtual room via a head mounted display (HMD). Their full-body movements were tracked and mapped to respective movements of Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the owner/author(s).

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“…The impact of a self‐avatar has been investigated in many ways (e.g., the visual embodiment of the user) . The self‐avatar in a collaborative MR has crucial functions in addition to those of single‐user MR environments, as the avatar is used for communication, including determining position, identification, visualization of focus of attention, and recognition of gesture and actions …”

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Empowerment and embodiment for collaborative mixed reality systems

Pan

Sinclair

Mitchell

2018

Computer Animation & Virtual

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We present several mixed-reality-based remote collaboration settings by using consumer head-mounted displays. We investigated how two people are able to work together in these settings. We found that the person in the AR system will be regarded as the "leader" (i.e., they provide a greater contribution to the collaboration), whereas no similar "leader" emerges in augmented reality (AR)-to-AR and AR-to-VRBody settings. We also found that these special patterns of leadership only emerged for 3D interactions and not for 2D interactions. Results about the participants' experience of leadership, collaboration, embodiment, presence, and copresence shed further light on these findings.

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Avatar realism and social interaction quality in virtual reality

Cited by 120 publications

References 7 publications

Studying the Sense of Embodiment in VR Shared Experiences

Studying the Sense of Embodiment in VR Shared Experiences

The effect of avatar realism in immersive social virtual realities

Empowerment and embodiment for collaborative mixed reality systems

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