Gaming Avatar Can Influence Sustainable Healthy Lifestyle: Be Like an Avatar

Avatar Therapy: an audio

This paper presents a radical new therapy for persecutory auditory hallucinations (“voices”) which are most commonly found in serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. In around 30% of patients these symptoms are not alleviated by anti-psychotic medication. This work is designed to tackle the problem created by the inaccessibility of the patients' experience of voices to the clinician. Pa...

Player-Avatar Identification in video gaming: Concept and measurement

This paper aims to develop an instrument to measure Player-Avatar Identification (PAI) in video game playing. Survey studies were conducted with over 1000 students in Singapore primary and secondary schools. The results of the studies demonstrated that PAI can be conceptualized and reliably measured in terms of four factors – feelings during play, absorption during play, positive attitudes towa...

TelMeA: An Asynchronous Community System with Avatar-like Agents

In this paper, we propose an asynchronous community system named TelMeA, which employs avatarlike agents, or scriptable animated agents, as the conversation interface. Few of current online community systems are close to real communities both in reality and in functions. We show with the proposed system that online community can be more like our real community in awareness of participants and o...

What If Your Avatar Looks Like You? Dual-Congruity Perspectives for Avatar Use

Avatar Gestures

This paper describes the concept and control of a 3d Avatar system with mimic and gestures as a conversational user interface. The Avatar system including gestures and mimic is based on morphing techniques. It allows to generate sign language and mouth motion at lip reading quality in real time. The concept of a Speech Act is introduced and a table is defined to classify conversation fragments....