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Semi-Autonomous Avatars: A New Direction for Expressive User Embodiment [PDF]
, 2008 Computer animated characters are rapidly becoming a regular part of our lives. They are starting to take the place of actors in films and television and are now an integral part of most computer games. Perhaps most interestingly in on-line games and chat
Ballin, Daniel +7 more
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eDrama: Facilitating online role-play using emotionally expressive avatars. [PDF]
, 2007 Introduction: This paper describes the results of a user study of a multi-user role-playing environment ‘edrama’, which enables groups of people to converse online, in scenario driven virtual environments.
Dhaliwal, Kulwant +5 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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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 +4 more
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TRT Akademi Dergisi, 2023 Meta Corporation announced in June 2022 that it was launching the Meta Avatars Store for users who want to adorn their avatars with luxury brands such as Balenciaga, Prada, and Thom Browne, as well as a selection of free outfits available.
Özge Özkök Şişman, Ceren Bilgici
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Lessons learnt running distributed and remote mixed reality experiments
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2023 One traditional model of research on mixed-reality systems, is the laboratory-based experiment where a number of small variants of a user experience are presented to participants under the guidance of an experimenter.
Anthony Steed +11 more
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“Scoliosis 3D”—A Virtual-Reality-Based Methodology Aiming to Examine AIS Females’ Body Image
Applied Sciences, 2023 Modern techniques such as virtual-reality (VR) tasks might offer a unique method for eliciting state-variable fluctuations in body satisfaction and associated behaviors.
Ewa Misterska +6 more
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CrashEd – A live immersive, learning experience embedding STEM subjects in a realistic, interactive crime scene [PDF]
Research in Learning Technology, 2016 Interactive experiences are rapidly becoming popular via the surge of ‘escape rooms’; part game and part theatre, the ‘escape’ experience is exploding globally, having gone from zero offered at the outset of 2010 to at least 2800 different experiences ...
Marie L. Bassford +4 more
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Embodiment in Virtual Reality Intensifies Emotional Responses to Virtual Stimuli
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Modulating emotional responses to virtual stimuli is a fundamental goal of many immersive interactive applications. In this study, we leverage the illusion of illusory embodiment and show that owning a virtual body provides means to modulate emotional ...
Dominik Gall +4 more
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The Influence of Human Body Orientation on Distance Judgments
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 People maintain larger distances to other peoples’ front than to their back. We investigated if humans also judge another person as closer when viewing their front than their back.
Edgard eJung +9 more
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