The effects of Avatars Gender and Appearance on Social Behavior in Online 3D Virtual Worlds. Banakou, D. & Chorianopoulos, K. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 2010. Paper Paper doi abstract bibtex In this article, we investigate the effects of avatars appearance on user sociability in 3D virtual worlds. In particular, we study gender and appearance differences in social communication preferences and behavior in virtual public spaces. For this purpose, we have employed the virtual ethnographic method, which is an adaptation of traditional ethnography for the study of cyberspace. Although we only employed nine users who used four different avatars, we observed a cumulative of more than two hundreds social encounters. We found that users with more elaborate avatars had a higher success rate in their social encounters, than those users with the default avatars. Most notably, female users selected to speak with male avatars much more frequently, when using the attractive avatar, which indicates a self-confidence effect induced by the appearance of the personal avatar.
@Article{Banakou_2010,
author = {Banakou, Domna and Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos},
title = {{The effects of Avatars Gender and Appearance on Social Behavior in Online 3D Virtual Worlds}},
journal = {Journal of Virtual Worlds Research},
year = {2010},
volume = {2},
number = {5},
abstract = {In this article, we investigate the effects of avatars appearance on user sociability in 3D virtual worlds.
In particular, we study gender and appearance differences in social communication preferences and behavior in virtual public
spaces. For this purpose, we have employed the virtual ethnographic method, which is an adaptation of traditional ethnography
for the study of cyberspace. Although we only employed nine users who used four different avatars, we observed a cumulative of
more than two hundreds social encounters. We found that users with more elaborate avatars had a higher success rate in their
social encounters, than those users with the default avatars. Most notably, female users selected to speak with male avatars
much more frequently, when using the attractive avatar, which indicates a self-confidence effect induced by the appearance of
the personal avatar.},
doi = {10.4101/jvwr.v2i5.779},
url_Paper={Banakou_2010.pdf},
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://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/779},
}
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