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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 +2 more
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Smiling and first impressions in ad hoc entrustment decisions: An avatar-based simulation study. [PDF]
GMS J Med EducObjective: We aimed to examine how neutral and smiling facial expressions, as indicators of non-verbal first impressions, influence ad hoc entrustment and perceptions of trustworthiness in a person in medical scenarios that demand entrustment decisions.
Bauermann M +8 more
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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 +1 more
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Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundThree-dimensional avatars provide an intuitive visual representation of body size and shape that can be useful for tailored clinical care, for example in the management of persons with obesity.
Marco Alessandro Minetto +14 more
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Cogent Education, 2017 The Avatar Project was a two-week English project in which Chinese high school students in an internationalised school in Shanghai China explored the topic of cultural and individual identity.
Adam Poole
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Creating Realistic Human Avatars for Social Virtual Environments Using Photographic Inputs
Journal of Information Systems and InformaticsThis paper presents the development and evaluation of realistic virtual reality avatars created with a Blender add-on called Facebuilder. In this process, a person's head is photographed from different angles.
Raymond Leonardo Chandra +4 more
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Virtual Humans in Museums and Cultural Heritage Sites
Applied Sciences, 2022 This article presents the results of a survey on the use of digital avatars and agents in museums and places of cultural interest. The optimization of virtual agents in the cultural heritage domain is an interdisciplinary undertaking and this paper ...
Stella Sylaiou, Christos Fidas
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The Embodiment Dimension While Learning and Teaching in a Virtual World [PDF]
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2020 The paper focuses on the features of embodiment configurations when using the virtual world in the classroom. The context is a secondary school (students aged 11-15) adopting an educational immersive 3D virtual world. We conducted participant observation,
Martine Gadille +1 more
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E-Drama: Facilitating Online Role-play using an AI Actor and Emotionally Expressive Characters. [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes a multi-user role-playing environment, e-drama, which enables groups of people to converse online, in scenario driven virtual environments.
Dhaliwal, Kulwant +5 more
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Membrane composition and thermodynamic identity as boundaries of life for synthetic cell research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.What makes a cell a cell? The boundary of a living cell is not just a wall. Read as a Markov blanket, the membrane separates internal from external states, generating identity and non‐equilibrium order. Can this identity be rebuilt from scratch in a synthetic cell?
Caterina Presutti, Bert Poolman
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