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| Donath, Judith |
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Virtually Trustworthy |
| J Cassell, H Vilhjįlmsson |
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Fully Embodied Conversational Avatars: Making Communicative Behaviors Autonomous |
| Paulos and Canny |
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PRoP: personal roving presence |
| Bailenson, Beall, Loomis, Blascovich and Turk |
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Transformed Social Interaction:
Decoupling Representation from Behavior and Form in Collaborative Virtual Environments |
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| optional Kristine L Nowak, Christian Rauh |
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The Influence of the Avatar on Online Perceptions of Anthropomorphism, Androgyny, Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction |
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assignment |
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Read the papers and explore the
programs. (for Comic Chat, read the paper - I have included a
link for obtaining the software and you are welcome to try it, though
I have not been able to get it to work successfully). |
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Answer the following questons:
- What is the mapping between input (e.g. typing, commands, mouse
movements, etc.) and outputin Chat Circles, Comic Chat (from
your reading of the paper), and Second Life? How expressive is
the avatar? What action drives that expression? How reliably
does it relate to the user's intended expression?
- Chat Circles avoids the problem of spurious expression by
not having much in the way of expression. If you were
designing the next generation version of it, what additional
expressive capability would you build in, that is, what would
the signal be (the visible action) and what would it indicate?
How reliable would this signal be? For example, how would you
implement a version of gaze (attention signaling)?
- Is gaze a signal for the Paulos and Canny PRoP? What dos it
indicate? What makes it especially important
- Bailenson discusses ways that avatars can be transformed to
manipulate impressions. Is this "deceptive"? When is it
desireable? For whom?
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Please link
your essays by Monday midday.
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