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- The paper analyzes how personal characteristics, like gender and video gaming experience, influence users' feelings of embodiment in virtual environments.
- Results show that these individual traits lead to different self-reported experiences of embodiment, affecting how users respond in these settings.
- Additionally, the study finds that head-tracking technology can effectively measure embodiment objectively, streamlining the research process without extra equipment.
Article Abstract
A user's personal experiences and characteristics may impact the strength of an embodiment illusion and affect resulting behavioral changes in unknown ways. This paper presents a novel re-analysis of two fully-immersive embodiment user-studies (n = 189 and n = 99) using structural equation modeling, to test the effects of personal characteristics on subjective embodiment. Results demonstrate that individual characteristics (gender, participation in science, technology, engineering or math - Experiment 1, age, video gaming experience - Experiment 2) predicted differing self-reported experiences of embodiment Results also indicate that increased self-reported embodiment predicts environmental response, in this case faster and more accurate responses within the virtual environment. Importantly, head-tracking data is shown to be an effective objective measure for predicting embodiment, without requiring researchers to utilize additional equipment.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2023.3270725 | DOI Listing |
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