Am I (Not) a Ghost? Leveraging Affordances to Study the Impact of Avatar/Interaction Coherence on Embodiment and Plausibility in Virtual Reality.

The way users interact with Virtual Reality (VR) environments plays a crucial role in shaping their experience when embodying an avatar. How avatars are perceived by users significantly influences their behavior based on stereotypes, a phenomenon known as the Proteus effect. The psychological concept of affordances may also appear relevant when it comes to interact through avatars and is yet underexplored.