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Observing Virtual Avatars: The Impact of Avatars’ Fidelity on Identifying Interactions

Authors:

Florian Mathis,

Kami Vaniea, and

Mohamed KhamisAuthors Info & Claims

Academic Mindtrek '21: Proceedings of the 24th International Academic Mindtrek Conference

June 2021

Pages 154 - 164

https://doi.org/10.1145/3464327.3464329

Published: 07 September 2021 Publication History

Abstract

There are many cases where observing the interactions of a virtual avatar can be useful. However, it is unclear to what extent the avatar fidelity affects bystanders’ performance when observing gestures performed by avatars. We, therefore, conducted an online study (N=28) with different avatars performing touch, mid-air, and eye gaze gestures. Our avatars range from an abstract avatar to two more realistic ones. Our study shows that an abstract avatar provides bystanders with the same interaction information as more realistic avatars. This implies that it is sufficient to use abstract avatar designs when observing interaction behaviour in virtual environments and researchers do not necessarily need to go through time-consuming and expensive implementations of highly realistic avatars to answer their research questions, making Virtual Reality (VR) studies more accessible to the broader research community. Finally, we discuss studying VR security systems as a potential research application for which abstract avatars can be leveraged.

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