User Avatar Association in Virtual Worlds

Kanamgotov, Aslan; Koshy, Lyzgeo; Conrad, Marc; Prakoonwit, Simant

doi:10.1109/cw.2014.21

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“…Lastly, experiencing social VR avatars also encourage users to explore their own identity (avatar as a more real version of self), especially for those who might struggle with their gender or sexual identity. Their participants also show a stronger identification with their digital bodies in social VR than in other virtual worlds, as they have a stronger desire to make their digital bodies similar to themselves, which is inconsistent with the observation of Kanamgotov et al (2014). The same data was further analyzed by Freeman and Maloney (2021), adding that the construct of avatars in social VR is normally based on consistency with the users' physical selves or the social atmospheres of specific platforms.…”

Section: Users' Preferences For Digital Bodies Creationmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…According to the evidence found, the creation of avatars reflects different preferences. Kanamgotov et al (2014) investigated different identity attributes during avatar creation and how avatar customization influences the degree of user-avatar association. In their first experiment-an unstructured interview with 16 computer science students, they discovered that experienced users tend to create an alter ego/false identity that is different from themselves with a higher level of customization and shares fewer identity similarities with their avatars.…”

Section: Users' Preferences For Digital Bodies Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The inconsistent observations between (Kanamgotov et al, 2014) and (Freeman et al, 2020;Freeman and Maloney, 2021) may stem from the difference in their recruitment targets. Participants in the study of Freeman et al (2020) were recruited from different social VR platforms, who might be more comfortable with socializinghe virtual world and more open to presenting their authentic selves on such platforms, comparing to participants recruited from school in the study of Kanamgotov et al (2014). Both articles (Kanamgotov et al, 2014;Freeman and Maloney, 2021) highlight that environment or social atmospheres in social VR can impact users' choice of avatar identity.…”

Section: Users' Preferences For Digital Bodies Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants in the study of Freeman et al (2020) were recruited from different social VR platforms, who might be more comfortable with socializinghe virtual world and more open to presenting their authentic selves on such platforms, comparing to participants recruited from school in the study of Kanamgotov et al (2014). Both articles (Kanamgotov et al, 2014;Freeman and Maloney, 2021) highlight that environment or social atmospheres in social VR can impact users' choice of avatar identity. In addition, only customizable avatars were TABLE 4 We summarized typical user-avatar relationships that were observed or defined in literatures.…”

Section: Users' Preferences For Digital Bodies Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…avatar as an alter-ego differs from offline self Kanamgotov et al (2014), Freeman and Maloney (2021) Avatar as a more real version of self Freeman et al (2020), Freeman and Maloney (2021) Avatar as medium between user and virtual world Kanamgotov et al (2014) Avatar as a tool Kanamgotov et al (2014) Users and avatars as distinct entities Carruth and Hill (2015) Frontiers in Virtual Reality frontiersin.org 12 Lin and Latoschik 10.3389/frvir.2022.974652 considered in these studies, while personalized avatars, which reproduce the appearance of the user's physical self, were not an option.…”

Section: Types Of User-avatar Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital body, identity and privacy in social virtual reality: A systematic review

Lin

Latoschik

2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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Social Virtual Reality (social VR or SVR) provides digital spaces for diverse human activities, social interactions, and embodied face-to-face encounters. While our digital bodies in SVR can in general be of almost any conceivable appearance, individualized or even personalized avatars bearing users’ likeness recently became an interesting research topic. Such digital bodies show a great potential to enhance the authenticity of social VR citizens and increase the trustworthiness of interpersonal interaction. However, using such digital bodies might expose users to privacy and identity issues such as identity theft: For instance, how do we know whether the avatars we encounter in the virtual world are who they claim to be? Safeguarding users’ identities and privacy, and preventing harm from identity infringement, are crucial to the future of social VR. This article provides a systematic review on the protection of users’ identity and privacy in social VR, with a specific focus on digital bodies. Based on 814 sources, we identified and analyzed 49 papers that either: 1) discuss or raise concerns about the addressed issues, 2) provide technologies and potential solutions for protecting digital bodies, or 3) examine the relationship between the digital bodies and users of social VR citizens. We notice a severe lack of research and attention on the addressed topic and identify several research gaps that need to be filled. While some legal and ethical concerns about the potential identity issues of the digital bodies have been raised, and despite some progress in specific areas such as user authentication has been made, little research has proposed practical solutions. Finally, we suggest potential future research directions for digital body protection and include relevant research that might provide insights. We hope this work could provide a good overview of the existing discussion, potential solutions, and future directions for researchers with similar concerns. We also wish to draw attention to identity and privacy issues in social VR and call for interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Section: Users' Preferences For Digital Bodies Creationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Users' Preferences For Digital Bodies Creationmentioning

confidence: 99%