The impact of avatar personalization and immersion on virtual body ownership, presence, and emotional response

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1643-1652

  Waltemate, Thomas ^a   Gall, Dominik ^b   Roth, Daniel ^b   Botsch, Mario ^a   Latoschik, Marc Erich ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avatars; Emotion; Immersion; Personalization; Presence; Virtual body ownership

Indexed keywords

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; MIRRORS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RUBBER; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AVATARS; EMOTION; FACE; IMMERSION; PERSONALIZATIONS; PRESENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY; VIRTUAL BODIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ADULT; CLOTHING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAME; VIRTUAL REALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CLOTHING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES; VIRTUAL REALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85040927683     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2794629     Document Type: Article

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