Avatar Appearance in Digital Learning Environments
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In a pilot user study young people were to choose an avatar for an educational application. The avatars came in two visual styles – more naturalistic versus more stylized or sketchy. We explored to what extent similarity in appearance to oneself would be a motive for choices and whether this would differ between users who chose more visually naturalistic versus more stylized avatars. A preliminary analysis suggests that the concept of personal resonance may be useful to describe the role of avatar appearance for pedagogical use.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008