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What We Can Learn from Avatar-Driven Internet Communities

Case Studies on Two Commercial Applications

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From Brows to Trust

Part of the book series: Human-Computer Interaction Series ((HCIS,volume 7))

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In this chapter we describe a commercial platform for the development of net environments, virtual spaces inhabited by avatars which have been created and are subsequently visited and instructed by users via the Internet. The platform allows extensive data collection. Which data are collected and the scope of analysis will be explained on a theoretical level and by examples from data sets gathered from different applications.

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Zsófia Ruttkay Catherine Pelachaud

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Krenn, B., Neumayr, B., Schmotzer, C., Grice, M. (2004). What We Can Learn from Avatar-Driven Internet Communities. In: Ruttkay, Z., Pelachaud, C. (eds) From Brows to Trust. Human-Computer Interaction Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2730-3_12

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