Avatar culture: cross-cultural evaluations of avatar facial expressions
Avatar culture: cross-cultural evaluations of avatar facial expressions
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阿凡达文化：阿凡达面部表情的跨文化评估
作者：
Tomoko Koda;T. Ishida;M. Rehm;E. André
在我们的在线交流中，化身越来越多地被用来表达我们的情感。这种虚拟形象的使用是基于虚拟形象的表达在所有文化中都是通用的假设。本文研究了日本和西方设计师设计的虚拟形象表情的跨文化评价。本研究的目的是：(1)探讨虚拟化身表情评价中的文化差异，并应用人类面部表情识别的心理学研究成果；(2)识别虚拟化身表情解释中导致文化差异的表情和设计特征。我们的研究结果证实：(1)虚拟角色面部表情的解读存在文化差异，身体接近影响面部表情识别准确性的心理学理论也适用于虚拟角色面部表情；(2)积极表情的解读比消极表情具有更大的文化差异；(3)手势和手势标记的使用有时会对虚拟角色面部表情的识别产生反作用。
Avatars are increasingly used to express our emotions in our online communications. Such avatars are used based on the assumption that avatar expressions are interpreted universally among all cultures. This paper investigated cross-cultural evaluations of avatar expressions designed by Japanese and Western designers. The goals of the study were: (1) to investigate cultural differences in avatar expression evaluation and apply findings from psychological studies of human facial expression recognition, (2) to identify expressions and design features that cause cultural differences in avatar facial expression interpretation. The results of our study confirmed that (1) there are cultural differences in interpreting avatars’ facial expressions, and the psychological theory that suggests physical proximity affects facial expression recognition accuracy is also applicable to avatar facial expressions, (2) positive expressions have wider cultural variance in interpretation than negative ones, (3) use of gestures and gesture marks may sometimes cause counter-effects in recognizing avatar facial expressions.