Effects of Gestural Exaggeration to User Experience in Virtual Reality

Jiwon Oh, Gerard J. Kim

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Abstract

In real life, people use facial expressions, bodily gestures, and tone variations to convey information more clearly and dramatically. Such multimodal communication is effective, but also requires significant mental and physical efforts on the part of the communicator. In virtual reality (VR), such efforts can be much relieved not only automatically but also in a much more amplified way, which would not possible in real life. In this paper, we investigate the effects of exaggeration and highlighting of gestures when communicating in VR. The exaggeration and highlighting method we consider is enlarging and exaggerating of the gestural body parts. We conduct a comparative experiment in which a VR user tries to understand an avatar conveying a short passage or describing a concept word only in gestures with the avatar's gesturing body parts appropriately enlarged (or not). Our experiment has shown that there was not only the expected communication efficacy depending on the type of content to be conveyed, there was also a significant influence to the level of concentration, immersion and even presence.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - Web3D 2020
Subtitle of host publication25th ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology
EditorsStephen N. Spencer
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450381697
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020 Nov 9
Event25th ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology, Web3D 2020 - Virtual, Online, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2020 Nov 92020 Nov 13

Publication series

NameProceedings - Web3D 2020: 25th ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology

Conference

Conference25th ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology, Web3D 2020
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityVirtual, Online
Period20/11/920/11/13

Keywords

  • Exaggeration
  • Gesture
  • User experience
  • Virtual reality

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Software

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