2020 article

The Impact of Virtual Reality in the Social Presence of a Virtual Agent

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS (ACM IVA 2020).

By: M. Guimaraes *, R. Prada *, P. Santos *, J. Dias *, A. Jhala n  & S. Mascarenhas *

author keywords: intelligent virtual agents; virtual reality; social presence; social skills training
topics (OpenAlex): Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts; Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics; Action Observation and Synchronization
TL;DR: Results indicate that participant perception of social presence of virtual characters is higher in VR, a stronger impact compared to the same interaction in a traditional non-immersive platform, both in terms of presence and believability. (via Semantic Scholar)
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In this work we test the hypothesis that interacting with an intelligent virtual character in Virtual Reality (VR) has a stronger impact compared to the same interaction in a traditional non-immersive platform, both in terms of presence and believability.