Virtual Human Interaction Lab
Dr. Jeremy Bailenson of VHIL at Stanford just finished presenting at Metaverse U. You may have seen the recent NY Times article about mimicry and persuasion that covered some of their work.
Transformed Social Interaction (TSI), augmented gaze, and social influence were particularly interesting topics to me because of our current work in collaborative virtual environments. Much of their research focuses on breaking with traditional real life physical interaction to maximize the flexibility a virtual environment. I’m anxious to read their recent publication
Jeremy described a major Second Life study they have in progress that will be ending in a month or so. Approximately 100 students are participating and the amount of information they are collecting is quickly “filling a hard drive”.
February 17th, 2008 15:26
I think gaze awareness in the real world basically allow others to infer interest in most cases. So transforming gaze for eg. as suggested in Baienson’s paper to give an interactant the impression that S/he is the center of interest is likely to break down/add noise to the already limited gestural communication bandwidth. You might be interested in
A Fuzzy Based Approach for the Real-Time Capture and Dissemination of Visual Interest Information in Shared Environments available here
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CMV.2004.1319524
February 18th, 2008 00:21
Second Life News for February 18, 2008…
From: Wherein I Try to Balance My First and Second Lives PhotoHunt is back! Quote from the site - Very few people out there will remember my efforts to begin the PhotoHunt a little less than a year ago… the result was a bit of an unorganized and disc…