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Perlin, Ross

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“…The player's avatar, which was modeled after Perlin's Polly [28] to avoid the Proteus Effect [39] -the phenomenon that users conform to expected behaviors associated with an avatar's appearance. Figure 4.…”

Section: Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To avoid the Proteus Effect [39] -the phenomenon that users conform to expected behaviors and attitudes associated with an avatar's appearance -the playable character's avatar was modeled after Perlin's Polly [28], a gender-neutral anthropomorphic geometric shape. Figure 3 shows a portion of the sprite sheet we used to animate the player's avatar motion.…”

Section: Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Mimesis Effect

Domínguez

Cardona-Rivera

Vance

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present a study that investigates the heretofore unexplored relationship between a player's sense of her narrative role in an interactive narrative role-playing game and the options she selects when faced with choice structures during gameplay. By manipulating a player's knowledge over her role, and examining in-game options she preferred in choice structures, we discovered what we term the Mimesis Effect: when players were explicitly given a role, we found a significant relationship between their role and their in-game actions; participants role-play even if not instructed to, exhibiting a preference for actions consistent with their role. Further, when players were not explicitly given a role, participants still role-playedthey were consistent with an implicit role -but did not agree on which role to implicitly be consistent with. We discuss our findings and broader implications of our work to both game development and games research.

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Section: Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%