Avatars Appearance and Social Behavior in Online Virtual Worlds. Banakou, D., Chorianopoulos, K., & Anagnostou, K. In 2009 13th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, pages 207–211, sep, 2009. IEEE. Paper Paper doi abstract bibtex In this article, we investigate the effects of avatars appearance on user social behavior in online virtual worlds. In particular, we study appearance differences in social communication preferences and behavior in virtual public spaces. For this purpose, we have employed virtual ethnographic methods, which is an adaptation of traditional ethnography for the study of cyberspace. We employed nine users who used four different avatars and we observed a cumulative of more than two hundreds social encounters. The results of the study indicate that avatars appearance is an important factor in determining the social communication patterns between users in online 3D worlds. In particular, we found that users with more elaborate avatars had a higher success rate in their social encounters, than those users with the default avatars. The implications of this study raise several issues for the design of avatars, as well as for the study of social communication in online 3D worlds.
@InProceedings{Banakou_2009,
author = {Banakou, Domna and Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos and Anagnostou, Kostas},
title = {{Avatars Appearance and Social Behavior in Online Virtual Worlds}},
booktitle = {2009 13th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics},
year = {2009},
pages = {207--211},
month = {sep},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {In this article, we investigate the effects of avatars appearance on user social behavior in online virtual
worlds. In particular, we study appearance differences in social communication preferences and behavior in virtual public
spaces. For this purpose, we have employed virtual ethnographic methods, which is an adaptation of traditional ethnography for
the study of cyberspace. We employed nine users who used four different avatars and we observed a cumulative of more than two
hundreds social encounters. The results of the study indicate that avatars appearance is an important factor in determining the
social communication patterns between users in online 3D worlds. In particular, we found that users with more elaborate avatars
had a higher success rate in their social encounters, than those users with the default avatars. The implications of this study
raise several issues for the design of avatars, as well as for the study of social communication in online 3D worlds.},
doi = {10.1109/PCI.2009.9},
url_Paper={Banakou_2009.pdf},
isbn = {978-0-7695-3788-7},
keywords = {Second Life,Virtual ethnography,avatar appearance,ethnography,human-computer
interaction,multimedia,self-confidence,sociability,virtual world},
mendeley-tags = {ethnography,human-computer interaction,multimedia,self-confidence,virtual world},
url = {http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/PCI.2009.9},
}
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