Connected to My Avatar: Effects of avatar embodiments on user cognitions, behaviors, and self construal

Frank Biocca

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_40

Connected to My Avatar: Effects of avatar embodiments on user cognitions, behaviors, and self construal

Frank Biocca

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

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Abstract

Mediated experience increasingly involves some representation of ourselves, so-called avatars. Avatars are used to facilitate the interaction with others in social media or are integrated as part of interfaces, used for interacting with 3D spatial environments and objects in games and simulations. These avatars vary in the degree to which they are realistic, representative of our sense of self or social status, or embodied, that is connected via the computer interface to the user's body via sensorimotor interaction. We review some of psychological effects of avatar identification and embodiment including evidence of the effects of avatar identification and embodiment on changes in behavior, arousal, learning, and self-construal. Furthermore, some avatar based changes in perception, cognition, and behavior may carry over and extend into changes into user's real world perception and behavior.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Social Computing and Social Media - 6th International Conference, SCSM 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proceedings
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	421-429
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783319076317
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_40
State	Published - 2014
Event	6th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2014 - Held as Part of 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014 - Heraklion, Greece Duration: Jun 22 2014 → Jun 27 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8531 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	6th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2014 - Held as Part of 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Heraklion
Period	6/22/14 → 6/27/14

Keywords

avatar
embodiment
human computer interaction
presence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Biocca, F. (2014). Connected to My Avatar: Effects of avatar embodiments on user cognitions, behaviors, and self construal. In Social Computing and Social Media - 6th International Conference, SCSM 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proceedings (pp. 421-429). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8531 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_40

Connected to My Avatar: Effects of avatar embodiments on user cognitions, behaviors, and self construal. / Biocca, Frank.
Social Computing and Social Media - 6th International Conference, SCSM 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 421-429 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8531 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Entry/Poem › Conference contribution

Biocca, F 2014, Connected to My Avatar: Effects of avatar embodiments on user cognitions, behaviors, and self construal. in Social Computing and Social Media - 6th International Conference, SCSM 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8531 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 421-429, 6th International Conference on Social Computing and Social Media, SCSM 2014 - Held as Part of 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Greece, 6/22/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_40

Biocca F. Connected to My Avatar: Effects of avatar embodiments on user cognitions, behaviors, and self construal. In Social Computing and Social Media - 6th International Conference, SCSM 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2014. p. 421-429. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07632-4_40

Biocca, Frank. / Connected to My Avatar : Effects of avatar embodiments on user cognitions, behaviors, and self construal. Social Computing and Social Media - 6th International Conference, SCSM 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proceedings. Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 421-429 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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