| Title |
Talk to the Virtual Hands: Self-Animated Avatars Improve Communication in Head-Mounted Display Virtual Environments
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, October 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0025759 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Trevor J. Dodds, Betty J. Mohler, Heinrich H. Bülthoff |
| Abstract |
When we talk to one another face-to-face, body gestures accompany our speech. Motion tracking technology enables us to include body gestures in avatar-mediated communication, by mapping one's movements onto one's own 3D avatar in real time, so the avatar is self-animated. We conducted two experiments to investigate (a) whether head-mounted display virtual reality is useful for researching the influence of body gestures in communication; and (b) whether body gestures are used to help in communicating the meaning of a word. Participants worked in pairs and played a communication game, where one person had to describe the meanings of words to the other. |
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| United States | 2 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| Unknown | 7 | 64% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 11 | 100% |
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| United States | 4 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 108 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 32 | 27% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 14% |
| Researcher | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 13% |
| Unknown | 19 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Computer Science | 37 | 31% |
| Psychology | 21 | 18% |
| Engineering | 13 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 18 | 15% |
| Unknown | 22 | 18% |