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Avatars in Mental Health: Psychotherapists’ Attitudes Towards Avatar Technology and Factors Influencing Adoption [PDF]

European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education
Research in “cybertherapy” has explored innovative ways to integrate new technologies as innovative tools in psychological treatment, such as virtual reality.
Donatella Ciarmoli, Alessandro Gennaro, Francesca Lecce, Matteo Reho, Stefano Triberti   +4 more
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Public acceptance of cybernetic avatars in the service sector: evidence from a large-scale survey [PDF]

Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Cybernetic avatars are hybrid interaction robots or digital representations that combine autonomous capabilities with teleoperated control. This study investigates the acceptance of cybernetic avatars, with particular emphasis on robot avatars for ...
Laura Aymerich-Franch, Tarek Taha, Takahiro Miyashita, Hiroko Kamide, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Paolo Dario, Paolo Dario   +6 more
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Marketing Communication with Online Characters:

Maketingu Janaru, 2022
As more consumers shop online, avatars are being used to support consumer purchase behavior in many online shopping sites and virtual worlds. Previous studies have suggested that avatars have positive effects on consumers’ online shopping experience and ...
Yuumi Ogura
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Attitudes Toward Signing Avatars Vary Depending on Hearing Status, Age of Signed Language Acquisition, and Avatar Type

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The use of virtual humans (i.e., avatars) holds the potential for interactive, automated interaction in domains such as remote communication, customer service, or public announcements.
Lorna C. Quandt, Athena Willis, Melody Schwenk, Kaitlyn Weeks, Ruthie Ferster   +4 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, Guo, Chen, Kaufmann, Manuel, Zarate, Juan Jose, Valentin, Julien, Song, Jie, Hilliges, Otmar   +6 more
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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, Schatz, Sae, Nicholson, Denise   +2 more
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Character Customization With Cosmetic Microtransactions in Games: Subjective Experience and Objective Performance

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Free games that are monetized by selling virtual items, such as cosmetic microtransactions for one’s avatar, seem to offer a better gaming experience to paying players.
Christian Böffel, Sophie Würger, Jochen Müsseler, Sabine J. Schlittmeier   +3 more
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Measuring the effects of co-location on emotion perception in shared virtual environments: An ecological perspective

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2023
Inferring emotions from others’ non-verbal behavior is a pervasive and fundamental task in social interactions. Typically, real-life encounters imply the co-location of interactants, i.e., their embodiment within a shared spatial-temporal continuum in ...
Gary Bente, Ralf Schmälzle, Nolan T. Jahn, Andrea Schaaf   +3 more
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One Ring Fit to Rule Them All? An Analysis of Avatar Bodies and Customization in Exergames

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
With the growing popularity of exergames, researchers have noted the importance of presenting players with customizable avatars to encourage the long-term adoption of healthy behaviors offline.
Sara Czerwonka, Adrian Alvarez, Victoria McArthur   +2 more
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Personnage de l’absurde : archétype et avatars dans Aux abois de Tristan Bernard, La nausée de Jean-Paul Sartre, L’étranger d’Albert Camus et Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud

Multilinguales, 2023
The fictional figure of the absurd has long been assosiated to the Camusien’s character Meursault who appeared in the novel L’étranger. This paper intends to explore the intextual depth of this type of character through his doing and his being in four ...
Djamila Benaouda, Mohamed El-Badr Tirenifi   +1 more
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