Avoidance and Attraction in Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Affiliative Tendency on Collaboration

Wallace, Paul

doi:10.18848/1832-3669/cgp/v05i03/56003

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“…This frequent predisposition to create avatars that look like themselves in the real world means that similar attitudes and beliefs that mold real world interactions are likely to be a consideration in their interactions within MUVEs (Wallace & Maryott, 2009;Wallace, 2009). Confirming this, Ducheneaut et al (2009) suggest avatars as a good vehicle to explore attitudes and beliefs, such as gender and ethnicity stereotyping.…”

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Influence of Avatar Choice on Teacher Expectations and Perceptions of Student Success

Beck

2012

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations

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The gender and ethnicity of students have been shown to affect teacher expectations. As part of a Multi User Virtual Environment (MUVE), people socially interact via avatars that have the capability to be customized to details of ethnicity and gender. Teachers in MUVEs instruct students with little knowledge of potential biases and prejudices toward avatars of different genders and ethnicities. This study’s purpose was to examine the influence of student avatar choice of gender and ethnicity on teachers’ expectations. Teachers were asked to review a transcript, image, and video of a student avatar and then respond about the student’s intellectual and relational abilities. Results indicate that avatar gender and ethnicity influence teachers’ expectations. Results may help teachers discover potential biases and prejudices toward some student avatars, as well as level the playing field for student avatars of differing genders and ethnicities.

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Influence of Avatar Choice on Teacher Expectations and Perceptions of Student Success

Beck

2012

International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations

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“…When it comes to social interaction in VR, Nowak and Biocca (2003) showed that the degree of empathy that immersants express for each other isn't correlated to the anthropomorphism of the avatars. Rather, the willingness to contribute to a group task as well as the performances obtained are more linked to visual similarities between participants and self-identification (Wallace and Maryott, 2009;Van der Land et al, 2015). This tendency has been used as a narrative argument in the popular video game Journey (2012), where players are immersed into a solitary experience in a vast landscape and may get a strong feeling of copresence after the unexpected appearance of another similar avatar to collaborate with.…”

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Shared Diminished Reality: A New VR Framework for the Study of Embodied Intersubjectivity

Vuarnesson

Zamplaras

Laroche

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Front. Virtual Real.

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Shaping both the environment and the embodiment of the users in that virtual world, VR offers designers and cognitive scientists the unprecedented potential to virtually explore a vast set of interactions between persons, and persons and their environment. By design, VR tools offer a formidable opportunity to revisit the links between body movement and lived experiences, and to experiment with them in a controlled, yet engaging and ecologically valid manner. In our multidisciplinary research-creation project we ask, how can we design (virtual) environments that specifically encourage interactions between multiple persons and that allow designers, scientists, and participants (users or “immersants”) to explore the very process of interaction itself? Building on our combined experience with dance improvisation research and interactive virtual spatial design, we document a multi-user VR experience design approach we name Shared Diminished Reality (SDR), where immersants are co-present and able to move together while their bodies and the environment are represented in a minimalist way. Our working hypothesis is that non-anthropomorphic embodiment of oneself and one’s partner(s), combined with open-ended exploration, focuses the user’s attention on the quality of the interaction and encourages playfulness and creativity. We present the articulations VR platform and its design history, as well as design evaluations of SDR in a laboratory setting and through a mixed reality performance, interrogating the impact of our minimalist approach on user experience and on the quality of the interaction. Our results suggest that minimizing (self and other) representation in Shared Diminished Reality positively impacts relational dynamics, induces playful creativity, and fosters the will to move and improvise together.

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“…Hasler et al's (2009) conceptual framework and research agenda focused on behavioral indicators of virtual teamwork (i.e., form and content of team interaction, individual level effects, and intra-and intergroup effects), sociability factors (perceived presence, social conventions, emerging roles, and relationship formation), and usability factors (perceived usability, collaboration tools, communication mode, and support facilities). The link between spatial and visual characteristics, collaborative behaviors, and virtual teamwork in 3D3C worlds was explored by Montoya et al (2011), while Wallace et al (2009) studied the self-representation with human and non-human avatars concerning the willingness to collaborate in virtual worlds.…”

Section: Sociological Perspectives On 3d3c Worlds In Learningmentioning

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Computer-Simulated 3D Virtual Environments in Collaborative Learning and Training: Meta-Review, Refinement, and Roadmap

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Avoidance and Attraction in Virtual Worlds: The Impact of Affiliative Tendency on Collaboration

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Influence of Avatar Choice on Teacher Expectations and Perceptions of Student Success

Influence of Avatar Choice on Teacher Expectations and Perceptions of Student Success

Shared Diminished Reality: A New VR Framework for the Study of Embodied Intersubjectivity

Computer-Simulated 3D Virtual Environments in Collaborative Learning and Training: Meta-Review, Refinement, and Roadmap

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