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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2019.24.01.067

Exploring the Effects of the Virtual Human with Physicality on Co-presence and Emotional Response  

Shin, Kwang-Seong (Dept. of Digital Contents Engineering, Wonkwang Univ.)
Jo, Dongsik (Dept. of Digital Contents Engineering, Wonkwang Univ.)
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Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information / v.24, no.1, 2019 , pp. 67-71 More about this Journal
Abstract
With continued technology innovation in the fields of computer graphics (CG) and virtual reality (VR), digital animated avatars (or virtual humans) are evolving into ones that are more interactive at a suitable location such as museum, airport, and shopping mall. Specially, the form of the avatar (or the virtual human) realistically need to be expressed in a way that matches the users' physical space. In recent many researches, the form of virtual human has been expressed as mixed-reality human (MRH)-the virtual human combines with the physicality as the real part. In this paper, we propose to carry out a study comparing various MRH on co-presence and emotional response in two-typed virtual humans depending on how many actual parts are included: (1) (Level 1) small parts in the virtual human combined virtual components (e.g., the head only) and (2) (Level 2) large parts in the virtual human with the physicality as the real part such as head, arms, and upper body). We report on the implemented results of our virtual humans and experimental results on co-presence and emotional response.
Keywords
Virtual human; Mixed-reality human; MRH; Co-presence; Emotional response;
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