As consumer adoption of immersive technologies grows, virtual avatars will play a prominent
role in the future of social computing. However, as people begin to interact more frequently …

The future of the Internet is the metaverse, and therefore, we need avatars; in other words,
our digital selves that encapsulate our digital identities to represent us visually in this virtual …

Storytelling is a critical step in the cognitive development of children. Particularly, this
requires children to mentally project into the story context and to identify with the thoughts of …

Playfulness is an important, but often neglected, design quality for interactive products. This
paper presents a first step towards a validated questionnaire called PLEXQ, which …

Abstract Blended Reality Space is our term for an interactive mixed-reality environment
where the physical and the virtual are intimately combined in the service of interaction goals …

Avatars are ubiquitous in virtual worlds (VWs). As such, they have become central to how we
understand the way they are experienced. Common conceptualisations of the user avatar …

The doctoral thesis of Tatiana Gossen formulates criteria and guidelines on how to design
the user interfaces of search engines for children. In her work, the author identifies the …

Classification or typology systems used to categorize different human body parts have
existed for many years. Nevertheless, there are very few taxonomies of facial features …

This paper describes results from a large-scale survey to explore users' comfort with different
styles of avatars for workplace communication. Thirty-one avatars were evaluated based on …

Advances in 3D scanning technology allow us to create realistic virtual avatars from full body
3D scan data. However, negative reactions to some realistic computer generated humans …