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Journal of Religion & Film, 2010 The modern era of irregular warfare demands that today' s military personnel have a sophisticated understanding of culture. Toward that end, new simulation-based training technologies are being developed to support Human, Social, Cultural Behavior (HSCB) instruction.
Barber, Daniel +2 more
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Voz do avatar, voz como avatar, avatar da voz [PDF]
MatLit, 2015 My article proposes an exercise of archeophony – or voice archeology – focusing, on this occasion, on the possibility of establishing the complex figure and imagining of the ‘avatar’ as a comparandum of the notion and representation of the ‘cyborg’.
Serra, Pedro
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The impact of self-avatars on trust and collaboration in shared virtual environments. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 A self-avatar is known to have a potentially significant impact on the user's experience of the immersive content but it can also affect how users interact with each other in a shared virtual environment (SVE).
Ye Pan, Anthony Steed
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Avatar identification mediates the relationship between avatar attractiveness and self-objectification among young MOBA players: the moderated roles of avatar customization and gender swapping [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Utilizing avatar identification to explain the relationship between avatar attractiveness on players’ self-objectification among young MOBA players and analyze the moderating effects of avatar customization and gender swapping.
Lujie Hao, Yawen Su, Qingquan Jiang
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Avatar customization, social presence, and eHealth literacy: understanding user adoption of virtual hospitals for public health innovation [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionGlobal healthcare systems face escalating challenges due to an aging population, an increasing illness burden, and significant shortages in the healthcare workforce. In this context, rapid advances in digitalisation and metaverse technologies
Haoran Li +4 more
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Physiological Response of Imagery Running with or without an Avatar in 3D Virtual Reality: A Preliminary Study [PDF]
The Asian Journal of Kinesiology, 2021 OBJECTIVES The present study is aimed at observing the physiological response imagery running with an avatar in 3D virtual reality (VR) and to explore the differences in physiological responses between imagery running with and without an avatar in 3D VR.
Kyung Ji Moon +5 more
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X-Avatar: Expressive Human Avatars
2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 We present X-Avatar, a novel avatar model that captures the full expressiveness of digital humans to bring about life-like experiences in telepresence, AR/VR and beyond. Our method models bodies, hands, facial expressions and appearance in a holistic fashion and can be learned from either full 3D scans or RGB-D data.
Shen, Kaiyue +6 more
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Contemporary Management of Complex Ventricular Arrhythmias
Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology Review, 2022 Percutaneous catheter ablation is an effective and safe therapy that can eliminate ventricular tachycardia, reducing the risks of both recurrent arrhythmia and shock therapies from a defibrillator.
Benedict M Wiles +3 more
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SLAS Discovery, 2022 Dysfunction and damage of the lacrimal gland (LG) results in ocular discomfort and dry eye disease (DED). Current therapies for DED do not fully replenish the necessary lubrication to rescue optimal vision.
Teerapat Rodboon +3 more
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Short-coupled ventricular ectopics leading to cardiac arrest in a young woman
The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2022 Background This case report highlights the importance of recognizing that ventricular ectopy may be a cause for syncope and sudden cardiac death, through triggered disorganized arrhythmia. In the context of syncope, ventricular ectopy should be carefully
George Katis +2 more
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