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- Title
Talk to the virtual hands: self-animated avatars improve communication in head-mounted display virtual environments.
- Authors
Dodds, Trevor J; Mohler, Betty J; Bülthoff, Heinrich H
- 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.
- Publication
PloS one, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 10, pe25759
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0025759