Influence of Personality Traits and Body Awareness on the Sense of Embodiment in Virtual Reality

Dewez, Diane; Fribourg, Rebecca; Argelaguet, Ferran; Hoyet, Ludovic; Mestre, Daniel; Slater, Mel; Lécuyer, Anatole

doi:10.1109/ismar.2019.00-12

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“…They were also more likely to experience a strong sense of being in the same room as the other person and find resemblance with a face to face meeting, leading to a higher sense of social presence. Agreeableness has been implicated in previous studies of social presence, which have been comparably measured here (Dewez et al, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 58%

“…These results are promising, particularly because Agreeableness and Extraversion have been implicated in previous work on character realism in immersive settings (Zibrek et al, 2018), while Extraversion has also been correlated with immersive tendencies in such environments (Weibel et al, 2010). Ownership has also previously been linked to the trait for Openness in a larger study (Dewez et al, 2019). Our results in tandem with the work outlined here indicate that the role of personality traits in virtual experiences can be a focus for researchers interested in quantifying subjective differences in effect quality for immersive experiences.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…Moreover, valence scores tended to be lower in the group of male participants rather that in the group of female participants. While those results are difficult to interpret, they are not the first one suggesting differences between gender in subjective feelings of virtual experience, as previous works already highlighted the influence of such aspect on the sense of Ownership toward a virtual avatar (Dewez et al, 2019) or on proxemics (Zibrek et al, 2020), which reinvigorates the need to further investigate that effect.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

“…It has been discussed in previous work that personality traits could influence users's sense of presence (Wallach et al, 2010) and sense of embodiment toward an avatar (McCreery et al, 2012;Dewez et al, 2019) in virtual reality.…”

Section: Personality Traitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While SoE serves as a general term for the illusion of bodily representation in avatar use, it can be described in terms of several sub-components; agency, body ownership and self-location (Kilteni et al, 2012). Modulation of these dimensions has been the motivation of work focusing specifically on agency (Jeunet et al, 2018) and ownership (Kokkinara and Slater, 2014;Dewez et al, 2019). These studies seem to implicate appearance, control and point of view (Fribourg et al, 2020) as salient factors influential in subjective SoE.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Avatar use on video-conference platforms has found dual purpose in recent times as a potential method for ensuring privacy and improving subjective engagement with remote meeting, provided one can also ensure a minimal loss in the quality of social interaction and sense of personal presence. This work focuses on interactions of this sort through real-time motion captured 3D personalized virtual avatars in a 2D video-conferencing context. Our experiments were designed with the intention of exploring previously defined perceptual illusions that occur with avatar-use in Virtual and Augmented Reality settings, outside of the immersive technological domains where they are normally measured. The research described here was aimed at empirically evaluating three separate dimensions of human-avatar interaction. The first was humans-as-avatars, with experimental conditions that were designed to measure changes to subjective perceptions of self-face ownership and self-concept. The second focus was other-perception, with the unique design of the studies outlined below among the first to measure social presence in a video-call between two human-driven avatars. The third emphasis was on the experiential content involved in avatar use, as there were measurements for emotion induction, fatigue and behavior change included in the data collection. The results describe some evidence for face and body ownership, while participants also reported high levels of social presence with the other avatar, indicating that avatar cameras could be a favorable alternative to non-camera feeds in video conferencing. There were also some useful insights gained regarding emotion elicitation in non-video vs. avatar conditions, as well as avatar-induced behavior change.

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confidence: 58%