Exploring avatar interactions to trigger social identity-related responses

Abstract

With the increasingly immersive environments becoming available, one can't help but wonder the possibilities they unlock. Not only the worlds themselves, but also the avatars that populate them are becoming increasingly more complex. How people can use this developments has been a topic of discussion in the past few years. In this demonstration we use a Virtual Reality Environment (VRE) as a tool to better understand our social identity, particularly about underlying bias towards determined situations. We do so by comparing what the person thinks about themselves with actual physiological data collected in specific scenarios.