Reflections of the extended self: Visual self-representation in avatar-mediated environments

Messinger, Paul R.; Ge, Xin; Smirnov, Kristen; Stroulia, Eleni; Lyons, Kelly

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.12.020

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“…Character development features, embedded within online applications accommodate the expression of an individual's virtual personality, such as in online games and more recently in social networking sites. These enhance attractiveness, with a number of interactive applications moving towards integrating anthropomorphic digital impersonation ('avatars'; Liao, Cheng & Teng, 2019 ;Messinger, Ge, Smirnov, Stroulia & Lyons, 2019).…”

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Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Stavropoulos

Motti‐Stefanidi

Griffiths

2022

European Psychologist

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Abstract. Due to continued groundbreaking digital advancements, Internet use has increased significantly. This has led to a heated debate in relation to weighing the many advantages of the technology against its potentially deleterious effects. To address such questions, experts converge on the need for greater knowledge around the way individual differences, partly shaped by an individual’s unique experiences of engaging with the medium, and partly by other real-life experiences, lead to different developmental trajectories. Consequently, the goals of the present review are to (i) broadly describe differences in digital media applications, users, and usage; (ii) introduce the Cyber-Developmental Framework (CDF), as an overarching framework for understanding individual differences in adaptive and maladaptive digital media use among youth; (iii) delineate the cyber-component of this framework in relation to users’ experience of the digital context, their activity within it, as well as their digital self-presence, which may have an impact on their digital media use; and (iv) summarize priorities and future directions through the lens of this CDF. Within this context, this review particularly emphasizes the effect of digital media use on youth’s psychological well-being. It is argued that the trajectory youth will follow in their use of the Internet is a function of the interplay between their characteristics, their proximate and distal contexts, and the particular features of the digital application(s) that the individual is engaged in. The review points to the need to conduct research focusing on better understanding the developmental and digital-context-related influences on youth’s trajectories of Internet use.

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Section: Cyber-layer/system Level Of Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Stavropoulos

Motti‐Stefanidi

Griffiths

2022

European Psychologist

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“…The event participants prepared and experienced the use of the avatar for interaction (meeting with people they knew and did not know), and more than two out of three found the avatar use pleasant. The vast majority tried to shape their avatar to look like they did in the physical world, which is a practice that earlier studies [43,45] have also found out. A further question was about the participants' feeling of trust and security in networking and interactions, which are important in entrepreneurship and innovation events, in search for potential innovations.…”

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“…"Face-to-face" meetings between avatars had some challenges because the avatar could not express physically any detailed feelings. Bodily and facial expressions are important in face-to-face contacts to support one's intentions and to judge better the messages [45]. An avatar could perform basic expressions such as clapping hands, making a gesture of thinking, indicating being amazed with hand or jumping from excitement, but these are far from the fine-tuned expressions of living persons.…”

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

Jauhiainen

2021

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt changes for international events that promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Usually, such events bring together thousands of participants to provide them with information about ongoing and emerging trends in their fields, to network with old and new colleagues and get ideas that can develop into innovations. In 2020, most such events were cancelled. Few events were organized virtually, that is without participants physically coming together. Compared with physical face-to-face events, virtual events reduce the travel-related emissions and consumption, thereby supporting sustainability. This article studies the SHIFT entrepreneurship and innovation event held virtually in October 2020 and organized in Finland. For this article, the author gathered data about user preferences from surveying participants, speakers, presenters and organizers, almost all of whom were first-time users of VirBELA’s 3D virtual platform. Furthermore, participant observation and interviews via avatars were conducted during the event. At the virtual event, 68% of respondents talked with former acquaintances, and 68% also talked with new acquaintances, and 53% opinioned that using the virtual platform can support the emergence of innovations. Virtual entrepreneurship and innovation events have potential to support networking, novel ideas and thus innovations, but issues of trust and confidentiality arose concerns among some participants.

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“…As these authors remark, “the gender variable is considered crucial to explain inequalities and identities in modern society” (p. 796). Messinger et al ’s (2019) review details the characteristics of the millennials and how they affect their behavior. This justifies why sellers must send explicit messages as well as efficient technology to attend their needs.…”

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Designing the best avatar to reach millennials: gender differences in a restaurant choice

Gonzales-Chávez

Vilà

2020

IMDS

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PurposeThe two major purposes of this paper are as follows: first, to identify those appropriate key attributes that a commercial avatar promoting a leisure service must have in terms of likeability, expertise, credibility and attractiveness, with the final purpose of stimulating millennials' acceptance (emotions, buying intentions and electronic word of mouth [eWOM]) and second, to compare if men and women expect the same attributes in a successful avatar.Design/methodology/approachA three avatar designs were prepared for this experiment. Then, they were presented to the respondents to be evaluated changing the order of appearance for avoiding biases: (attractive/likeable, expert/credible and normal/basic avatars). The participants were recruited using an online procedure. The final sample size was 104 consumers. They provided 302 valid responses about the three different avatars. A restaurant chain Chili's in Peru was used to define this experiment.FindingsFindings of the study indicated that the design attributes of an avatar and the desired effects were related terms. Second, an expert/credible avatar worked better than an atractive/likeable one and also better than a common avatar, especially among the feminine target.Originality/valueThis paper tries to develop a guide for executives or entrepreneurs immersed in the gastronomic field in Peru, to enable them to make appropriate decisions regarding the definition of an attractive and disruptive web page design with an innovative tool: efficient commercial avatars.

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Reflections of the extended self: Visual self-representation in avatar-mediated environments

Cited by 60 publications

References 55 publications

Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Risks and Opportunities for Youth in the Digital Era

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Events during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The User Preferences of VirBELA Virtual 3D Platform at the SHIFT Event Organized in Finland

Designing the best avatar to reach millennials: gender differences in a restaurant choice

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