English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
 
 
DownloadE-Mail
  Changing our perception of communication in virtual environments

Dodds, T., Mohler, B., & Bülthoff, H. (2010). Changing our perception of communication in virtual environments. Poster presented at 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Item is

Files

show Files

Locators

show

Creators

show
hide
 Creators:
Dodds, TJ1, Author           
Mohler, BJ1, Author           
Bülthoff, HH1, Author           
Affiliations:
1Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497797              

Content

show
hide
Free keywords: -
 Abstract: When people communicate face-to-face they use gestures and body language that naturally coincide with speech [McNeill, 2007, Gesture Thought, University of Chicago Press.]. In an immersive virtual environment (VE) we can control both participants' visual feedback of self and the other in order to investigate the effect of gestures on a communication task. In our experiment the communication task is to make the listener say a word without the speaker saying the word. We use animated real-time self-avatars in immersive VEs to answer the question: `Does the use of naturalistic gestures help communication in VEs'. Specifically, we perform a within-subject experiment which investigates the influence of first- and third-person perspectives, and of animated speaker and listener. We find that people significantly perform better in the communication task when both the speaker and listener have an animated self-avatar and when the camera for the speaker shows a third-person perspective. When participants moved more they also performed better in the task. These results suggest that when two people in a VE are animated they do use gestures to communicate. These results demonstrate that in addition to the speaker movements, the listener movements are important for efficient communication in an immersive VE.

Details

show
hide
Language(s):
 Dates: 2010-08
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: -
 Publishing info: -
 Table of Contents: -
 Rev. Type: -
 Identifiers: URI: http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=v100134
BibTex Citekey: 6997
 Degree: -

Event

show
hide
Title: 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception
Place of Event: Lausanne, Switzerland
Start-/End Date: -

Legal Case

show

Project information

show

Source

show