Do men heal more when in drag? Conflicting identity cues between user and avatar

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 773-776

  Yee, Nick ^a   Ducheneaut, Nicolas ^a   Yao, Mike ^b   Nelson, Les ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Avatar; Gender; Identity; Proteus effect; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AVATAR; BEHAVIORAL DATA; BEHAVIORAL OUTCOMES; GENDER; IDENTITY; PROTEUS EFFECT; STEREOTYPE; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 79958082631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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