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Avatar Appearance Beyond Pixels -- User Ratings and Avatar Preferences within Health Applications
Navid Ashrafi, Philipp Graf, Manuela Marquardt +3
The appearance of a virtual avatar significantly influences its perceived appropriateness and the user's experience, particularly in healthcare applications. This study analyzed in…
Exploring the Effects of Different Asymmetric Game Designs on User Experience in Collaborative Virtual Reality
Francesco Vona, Evelyn Romanjuk, Sina Hinzmann +3
The risk of isolation in virtual reality (VR) stems from the immersive nature of the technology. VR can transport users to entirely virtual environments, often disconnecting them f…
Sales Skills Training in Virtual Reality: An evaluation utilizing CAVE and Virtual Avatars
Francesco Vona, Michael Stern, Navid Ashrafi +3
This study investigates the potential of virtual reality (VR) for enhancing sales skills training using a Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). VR technology enables users to…
Comparing Pass-Through Quality of Mixed Reality Devices: A User Experience Study During Real-World Tasks
Francesco Vona, Julia Schorlemmer, Michael Stern +4
In extended reality, pass-through enables users to view their real-world surroundings via cameras on the headset, displaying live video inside the device. This study compared the p…
Enhancing Job Interview Preparation Through Immersive Experiences Using Photorealistic, AI-powered Metahuman Avatars
Navid Ashrafi, Francesco Vona, Carina Ringsdorf +6
This study will investigate the user experience while interacting with highly photorealistic virtual job interviewer avatars in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and on…
Single Vs Dual: Influence of the Number of Displays on User Experience within Virtually Embodied Conversational Systems
Navid Ashrafi, Francesco Vona, Philipp Graf +3
The current research evaluates user experience and preference when interacting with a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) healthcare application displayed on a single tablet in…
Impact of spatial auditory navigation on user experience during augmented outdoor navigation tasks
Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons, Zhirou Sun, Maurizio Vergari +3
The auditory sense of humans is important when it comes to navigation. The importance is especially high in cases when an object of interest is visually partly or fully covered. In…
Investigating the impact of virtual element misalignment in collaborative Augmented Reality experiences
Francesco Vona, Sina Hinzmann, Michael Stern +4
The collaboration in co-located shared environments has sparked an increased interest in immersive technologies, including Augmented Reality (AR). Since research in this field has…
Effect of external characteristics of a virtual human being during the use of a computer-assisted therapy tool
Navid Ashrafi, Vanessa Neuhaus, Francesco Vona +3
Identification within media, whether with real or fictional characters, significantly impacts users, shaping their behavior and enriching their social and emotional experiences. Im…
Protect and Extend -- Using GANs for Synthetic Data Generation of Time-Series Medical Records
Navid Ashrafi, Vera Schmitt, Robert P. Spang +2
Preservation of private user data is of paramount importance for high Quality of Experience (QoE) and acceptability, particularly with services treating sensitive data, such as IT-…