Size Certainly Matters - At Least If You Are a Gesticulating Digital Character: The Impact of Gesture Amplitude on Addressees' Information Uptake

摘要

In order to create trust and rapport, one goal in multi-modal virtual character research is to determine how to vary expressive qualities of the characters so that the addressee will perceive them in the desired way. This pilot study investigates the impact of gesture amplitude on addressees' information uptake. As digital characters used in pre-and early school years' learning games tend to be less human-like and more fanciful, we measured participants viewing a humanoid or an 'alien' character, respectively.