Pseudo Physical Contact and Communication in VRChat: A Study with Survey Method in Japanese Users
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2020
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
VRChat is one of social virtual reality platforms and getting popular. Pseudo physical contacts are used for communication in VRChat. We performed a questionnaire survey for VRChat users (N=341) in Japan to take statistics of users and their avatars, and to investigate effects of pseudo physical contacts on interpersonal attractiveness and communication. Users were 87% male, 8% female, and 4% neutral genders in the real world, while their avatars were 4% male, 87% female, and 9% neutral. Participants answered that the interpersonal attractiveness increased and the communication difficulty decreased after pseudo physical contacts, suggesting that the pseudo physical contact may improve our social relationship without actual touch.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:egve.20201275,
booktitle = {ICAT-EGVE 2020 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments - Posters and Demos},
editor = {Kulik, Alexander and Sra, Misha and Kim, Kangsoo and Seo, Byung-Kuk},
title = {{Pseudo Physical Contact and Communication in VRChat: A Study with Survey Method in Japanese Users}},
author = {Nagamachi, Kazuya and Kato, Yuki and Sugimoto, Maki and Inami, Masahiko and Kitazaki, Michiteru},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-530X},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-112-0},
DOI = {10.2312/egve.20201275}
}