Talk to the Virtual Hands: Self-Animated Avatars Improve Communication in Head-Mounted Display Virtual Environments

Trevor J. Dodds; Betty J. Mohler; Heinrich H. Bülthoff

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025759

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Talk to the Virtual Hands: Self-Animated Avatars Improve Communication in Head-Mounted Display Virtual Environments

Trevor J. Dodds ,

* E-mail: trevor.dodds@tuebingen.mpg.de

Affiliation Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
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Betty J. Mohler,

Affiliation Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
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Heinrich H. Bülthoff

Affiliations Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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Talk to the Virtual Hands: Self-Animated Avatars Improve Communication in Head-Mounted Display Virtual Environments

Trevor J. Dodds,
Betty J. Mohler,
Heinrich H. Bülthoff

Published: October 12, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025759

About the Authors

Trevor J. Dodds

* E-mail: trevor.dodds@tuebingen.mpg.de

Affiliation Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Betty J. Mohler

Affiliation Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Heinrich H. Bülthoff

Affiliations Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TJD BJM. Performed the experiments: TJD. Analyzed the data: TJD. Wrote the paper: TJD BJM. Final approval of the version to be published: HHB.

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