Effect of Avatar Anthropomorphism on Body Ownership, Attractiveness and Collaboration in Immersive Virtual Environments

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dc.contributor.authorGorisse, Geoffreyen_US
dc.contributor.authorDubosc, Charlotteen_US
dc.contributor.authorChristmann, Olivieren_US
dc.contributor.authorFleury, Sylvainen_US
dc.contributor.authorPoinsot, Killianen_US
dc.contributor.authorRichir, Simonen_US
dc.contributor.editorArgelaguet, Ferran and McMahan, Ryan and Sugimoto, Makien_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-01T16:10:18Z
dc.date.available2020-12-01T16:10:18Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractEffective collaboration in immersive virtual environments requires to be able to communicate flawlessly using both verbal and non-verbal communication. We present an experiment investigating the impact of anthropomorphism on the sense of body ownership, avatar attractiveness and performance in an asymmetric collaborative task. Using three avatars presenting different facial properties, participants have to solve a construction game according to their partner's instructions. Results reveal no significant difference in terms of body ownership, but demonstrate significant differences concerning attractiveness and completion duration of the collaborative task. However the relative verbal interaction duration seems not impacted by the anthropomorphism level of the characters, meaning that participants were able to interact verbally independently of the way their character physically express their words in the virtual environment. Unexpectedly, correlation analyses also reveal a link between attractiveness and performance. The more attractive the avatar, the shorter the completion duration of the game. One could argue that, in the context of this experiment, avatar attractiveness could have led to an improvement in non-verbal communication as users could be more prone to observe their partner which translates into better performance in collaborative tasks. Other experiments must be conduced using gaze tracking to support this new hypothesis.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersAvatars in Single and Multi User Experiences
dc.description.seriesinformationICAT-EGVE 2020 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/egve.20201261
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-03868-111-3
dc.identifier.issn1727-530X
dc.identifier.pages71-79
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20201261
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/egve20201261
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectHuman centered computing
dc.subjectVirtual reality
dc.titleEffect of Avatar Anthropomorphism on Body Ownership, Attractiveness and Collaboration in Immersive Virtual Environmentsen_US
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