Xu, Yi and Liu, Tuo (2018) Effects of Avatar's Humanness, Gestures, Spatial Presence on Interpersonal Trust and Attraction in Social VR. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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The innovation of virtual reality technologies are revolutionizing the way we communicate and interact with the world. Emerging Social VR apps indicate the potential to renovate people’s social life for being more relatable in immersive virtual environment. Under the framework of computer mediated communication, this research intends to testify the effects of avatar’s humanness and gestures on interpersonal trust and attraction, and to explore the moderate effect of spatial presence in Social VR. Through a 2×2 between-subject design experiment, 70 college students were recruited and divided into four groups in order to have an individual interaction with an avatar with different humanness (human & non-human) and gestures (with & without) respectively. The results demonstrated that avatar's humanness and gestures indicate different degrees of effects on people's evaluations towards interpersonal trust, physical attraction, social attraction, and task attraction. Additionally, spatial presence moderates the effects of humanness on interpersonal trust and social attraction.