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

Shin Kwang Seong; Jo， Dongsik

Journal of The Korea Society of Computer and Information

Abbr : JKSCI
2019, 24(1), pp.67-71
Publisher : The Korean Society Of Computer And Information
Research Area : Computer Science

Shin Kwang Seong ¹, Jo， Dongsik ²

¹원광대학교
²원광대학교

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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