A5013086250- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Media Influence and Health
- Digital Transformation in Industry
University of Würzburg
2023
Virtual humans, including virtual agents and avatars, play an increasingly important role as VR technology advances. For example, humans are used digital bodies of users in social or interfaces for AI assistants online financing. Interpersonal trust is essential prerequisite real-life interactions, well the world. However, to date, there no established interpersonal measurement tools specifically reality. This study fills gap, by contributing a novel validated behavioural tool measure...
Photorealistic avatars show great potential in social VR and collaboration. However, identity privacy issues are threatening avatars' authenticity VR. In addition to the necessary authentication protection, effective solutions needed convey status users thereby enhance overall trustworthiness. We designed several visual indicators (VIs) using static or dynamic effects on photorealistic evaluated their effectiveness visualizing status. this study we explored suitable attributes designs for...
This demo presents an innovative and validated method for measuring interpersonal trust in virtual humans as social interaction partners. In our design, participants are tasked to navigate through a reality maze interact with human, seeking advice on which path take. By carefully designing the experiments context, we induced believe that they interacting real person. A validation study, manipulating humans' appearance, tone of voice, engagement, revealed frequency advice-seeking correlates...