Navigating the Virtual Gaze: Social Anxiety's Role in VR Proxemics

Beatriz Mello, Robin Welsch, Marissa Verbokkem, Pascal Knierim, Martin Johannes Dechant

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli kirjassa/konferenssijulkaisussaConference article in proceedingsScientificvertaisarvioitu

26 Lataukset (Pure)

Abstrakti

For individuals with Social Anxiety (SA), interacting with others can be a challenging experience, a concern that extends into the virtual world. While technology has made significant strides in creating more realistic virtual human agents (VHA), the interplay of gaze and interpersonal distance when interacting with VHAs is often neglected. This paper investigates the effect of dynamic and static Gaze animations in VHAs on interpersonal distance and their relation to SA. A Bayesian analysis shows that static centered and dynamic centering gaze led participants to stand closer to VHAs than static averted and dynamic averting gaze, respectively. In the static gaze conditions, this pattern was found to be reversed in SA: participants with higher SA kept larger distances for static-centered gaze than for averted gaze VHAs. These findings update theory, elucidate how nuanced interactions with VHAs must be designed, and offer renewed guidelines for pleasant VHA interaction design.
AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
OtsikkoCHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ToimittajatFlorian Floyd Mueller, Penny Kyburz, Julie R. Williamson, Corina Sas, Max L. Wilson, Phoebe Toups Dugas, Irina Shklovski
KustantajaACM
Sivut1–15
ISBN (elektroninen)979-8-4007-0330-0
DOI - pysyväislinkit
TilaJulkaistu - 11 toukok. 2024
OKM-julkaisutyyppiA4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
TapahtumaACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Honolulu, USA, Honolulu, Yhdysvallat
Kesto: 11 toukok. 202416 toukok. 2024
https://chi2024.acm.org/

Conference

ConferenceACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
LyhennettäACM CHI
Maa/AlueYhdysvallat
KaupunkiHonolulu
Ajanjakso11/05/202416/05/2024
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