Avatar Customisation and Empowerment in VR Collaboration – A New Study on Self-Representation and Self-Perception
In a newly published article in New Media & Society, we investigated how the ability to customise avatars in social immersive virtual reality (VR) affects users’ self-perceptions during collaborative tasks. The study, titled “Virtually Better: Multi-user Experiment on Avatar Self-representation, Self-discrepancies, Avatar Style and Self-perceptions...