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Hafnia Hands: A Multi-Skin Hand Texture Resource for Virtual Reality Research
We created a hand texture resource (with different skin tone versions as well as non-human hands) for use in virtual reality studies. This makes it easier to run lab and remote studies where the hand representation is matched to the participants’ own ...
Henning Pohl, Aske Mottelson
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Mass timber construction systems, incorporating engineered wood products as structural elements, are gaining acceptance as a sustainable alternative to multi-story concrete or steel-frame structures.
Mariapaola Riggio +11 more
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Various recent research on online avatars debated their authenticity in terms of representing the individuals that manage them. Seemingly users would construct an enhanced or idealized presence of themselves online, yet fail to realize that others also ...
Sercan Sengün
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The Perception of Avatars in Virtual Reality During Professional Meetings
Social Virtual Reality (VR) offers virtual social spaces, where people can meet, collaborate and socialize via head-mounted displays. In VR applications, users can create their own avatars that can control to walk around and interact directly with other ...
Kirchner, Kathrin +7 more
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Beauty in the eye of the beholder? Attractiveness in a virtual world
The current study examines whether traditional offline gender biases regarding physical attractiveness and status transfer to Second Life (SL), a virtual world where residents can easily manipulate the appearance and status of avatars (i.e., graphical ...
Shu-Sha Angie Guan +3 more
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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 +3 more
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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 +3 more
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Using avatars to tailor ideation process to innovation strategy [PDF]
To face innovation challenges of the twenty-first century, companies should learn from proven successful strategies and draw on technological evolutions as well.
AOUSSAT, Améziane +4 more
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A pilot feasibility study of a tablet-based virtual community application with shared avatars for promoting health behavior change in older adult care facilities. [PDF]
BackgroundMaintaining exercise and medication habits is crucial for older adults, but conventional reminder-based digital interventions often produce only transient effects.MethodsWe conducted a mixed-methods pilot feasibility study comparing a reminder ...
Nakamura K +3 more
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Neural responses to virtual avatars are shaped by user preference and personality traits. [PDF]
This study aimed to investigate individual differences’ effects on brain activity in selected and non-selected avatars for re-engagement. The development of some applications for human–computer interaction has accelerated over the past decade. To develop
Takemoto A, Sugiura M.
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