Anthropomorphism and Illusion of Virtual Body Ownership

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2015
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The Eurographics Association
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In this paper we present a novel experiment to explore the impact of avatar realism on the illusion of virtual body ownership (IVBO) in immersive virtual environments, with full-body avatar embodiment and freedom of movement.We evaluated four distinct avatars presenting an increasing level of anthropomorphism in their detailed compositions. Our results revealed that each avatar elicited a relatively high level of illusion. However both machine-like and cartoon-like avatars elicited an equivalent IVBO, slightly superior to the human-ones. A realistic human appearance is therefore not a critical top-down factor of IVBO, and could lead to an Uncanny Valley effect.
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@inproceedings{
10.2312:egve.20151303
, booktitle = {
ICAT-EGVE 2015 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
}, editor = {
Masataka Imura and Pablo Figueroa and Betty Mohler
}, title = {{
Anthropomorphism and Illusion of Virtual Body Ownership
}}, author = {
Lugrin, Jean-Luc
and
Latt, Johanna
and
Latoschik, Marc Erich
}, year = {
2015
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1727-530X
}, ISBN = {
978-3-905674-84-2
}, DOI = {
10.2312/egve.20151303
} }
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