Title :
Social presence in mixed agency interactions
Author :
Robb, Andrew ; Lok, Benjamin
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
fDate :
March 29 2014-April 2 2014
Abstract :
In this paper, we present the preliminary results of an ongoing study exploring how mixed-agency teams influence feelings of social presence. Participants worked with a team composed of either two virtual humans or a team composed of one virtual human and one real human. We found that while the presence of a human teammate did not affect overall feelings of social presence, the presence of a human teammate did appear to strengthen participants´ perceptions that their virtual teammates were not real.
Keywords :
cognition; human computer interaction; team working; virtual reality; human teammate; mixed agency interactions; mixed-agency teams; participant perceptions; real human; social presence; virtual humans; virtual teammates; Aggregates; Educational institutions; Information systems; Solid modeling; Surgery; Virtual environments; Visualization; H.1.2 [Information Systems]: Models and Principles — User/Machine Systems; H.5.1 [Information Systems]: Information Interfaces and Presentation — Multimedia Information Systems;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Reality (VR), 2014 iEEE
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
DOI :
10.1109/VR.2014.6802076
