Exploring The Impact Of Environmental Effects On Social Presence With A Virtual Human

Keywords

Co-presence; Environment-aware behaviors; Physicalvirtual connectivity; Plausibility; Social presence; Virtual humans

Abstract

We explore how and in what ways the surrounding environment can be an important factor in human perception during interactions with virtual humans. We also seek to leverage any such knowledge to increase the sense of Social/Co-Presence with virtual humans.We conducted a user study to explore the influence of environmental events on social interaction between real and virtual humans in aMixed Reality setting. Specifically we tested two different treatments to see the effects on Social/Co-Presence: (i) enhanced physical-virtual connectivity/influence via a real fan blowing on virtual paper, and (ii) the virtual human’s corresponding awareness of the environmental factor as she looks at the fan and holds the fluttering paper. While a statistical analysis for the study did not support the positive effects of the two treatments, we have developed some new insights that could be useful for future studies involving virtual humans.

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volume

10011 LNAI

Number of Pages

470-474

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_57

Socpus ID

84994524938 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84994524938

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