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Avatar-mediated identity and life meaning orientations among internet users
Культурно-историческая психологияContext and relevance. In digital reality, the attachment of young Internet users to their avatar — the digital self-image — is linked to the search for life's meaning and the problematic pathway of identity development.
M.V. Klementyeva, V.I. Ivanova
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An Exploratory Study into the Accessibility of a Multi-User Virtual World for Young People with Aphasia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper describes an exploratory study into the accessibility of the virtual world Second Life for two young people with aphasia. Aphasia is a communicative disorder most commonly caused by a stroke.
Galliers, J. R., Wilson, S.
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A Review on Sensor Technologies, Control Approaches, and Emerging Challenges in Soft Robotics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review provides an introspective of sensors and controllers in soft robotics. Initially describing the current sensing methods, then moving on to the control methods utilized, and finally ending with challenges and future directions in soft robotics focusing on the material innovations, sensor fusion, and embedded intelligence for sensors and ...
Ean Lovett +5 more
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Exploring avatar roles for motivational effects in gameful environments
EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies, 2017 This paper explores avatar roles and design principles in helping to develop motivation in game environments. Different avatar applications could influence the experience of players in at least three ways: as a customisation tool, game strategy, and ...
Nooralisa M Tuah +3 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This study explores how information processing is distributed between brains and bodies through a codesign approach. Using the “backpropagation through soft body” framework, brain–body coupling agents are developed and analyzed across several tasks in which output is generated through the agents’ physical dynamics.
Hiroki Tomioka +3 more
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Pre‐Encoded IFN‐I Sensitivity Exacerbates Memory T Cell Senescence in Solid Tumors
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Type I interferon (IFN‐I) signaling promotes p21‐dependent cell cycle arrest in senescent tumor‐specific memory T cells, resulting in poor proliferative responses and solid tumor regression during cancer vaccination. Conversely, IFNα/β receptor blockade reinvigorates T cell proliferation to regress solid tumors and is more effective with increasing ...
Andrew Nguyen +4 more
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Learning from Myself: Avatars and Educational Video Games
Current Issues in Education, 2012 This research explores which conditions for video game play are more effective in producing outcomes such as knowledge retained, involvement, behavioral intention, enjoyment, and self-efficacy.
Melissa Lewis Hobart
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The Price of "Man" and "Woman": A Hedonic Pricing Model of Avatar Attributes in a Synthetic World [PDF]
This paper explores a unique new source of social valuation: a market for bodies. The internet hosts a number of large synthetic worlds which users can visit by piloting a computer-generated body, known as an avatar.
Edward Castronova
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Synthetic worlds, synthetic strategies: attaining creativity in the metaverse [PDF]
, 2009 This text will attempt to delineate the underlying theoretical premises and the definition of the output of an immersive learning approach pertaining to the visual arts to be implemented in online, three dimensional synthetic worlds.
Ayiter, Elif
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