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CSCW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Me and my avatar: exploring users' comfort with avatars for workplace communication
This paper describes results from a large-scale survey to explore users’ comfort with different styles of avatars for workplace communication. Thirty-one avatars were evaluated ...
Kori M. Inkpen, Mara Sedlins
CISIS
2009
IEEE
14 years 9 days ago
P2P-Based Avatar Interaction in Massive Multiuser Virtual Environments
The idea of the 3D Web as a global scale Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) currently is very popular and a lot of research work is done in this field. In the course of the Hy...
Markus Esch, Jean Botev, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Sch...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Body and mind: a study of avatar personalization in three virtual worlds
An increasingly large number of users connect to virtual worlds on a regular basis to conduct activities ranging from gaming to business meetings. In all these worlds, users proje...
Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ming-Hui Wen, Nicholas Yee, Gr...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Real ethics in a virtual world
This paper investigates the ethics of the appearance and behavior of avatars in massively multi-user online communities, in particular, avatars created for virtual business intera...
Victoria McArthur
CHI
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Constructing my online self: avatars that increase self-focused attention
Three studies investigated whether users' strategies for customising online avatars increase their self-focused attention, also known as private self-awareness. Study 1 showe...
Asimina Vasalou, Adam N. Joinson, Jeremy Pitt