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Jochen Müsseler1, Lennart Ruhland1, Christian Böffel1

  • 1RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2006)
|August 24, 2018
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Actors using avatars in spatial tasks develop behavioral tendencies tied to the avatar, not themselves. This suggests automatic responses in compatibility tasks are less automatic than previously assumed.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Robotics

Background:

  • Spatial compatibility effects are typically explained by automatic behavioral tendencies.
  • When actors adopt an avatar's perspective, spatial dissociations can occur.
  • It remains unclear if actors develop these tendencies for avatars, potentially overriding their own perspective.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether actors develop automatic behavioral tendencies for an avatar.
  • To determine if these avatar-specific tendencies can override the actor's own perspective.
  • To explore the implications for spatial compatibility tasks and human-robot interaction.

Main Methods:

  • Participants adopted an avatar's perspective in spatial compatibility tasks.
Keywords:
Stimulus–response compatibilityavatarhuman-controlled robotipsilateral versus contralateralperspective taking

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  • Actors responded to visual stimuli by pressing left-right keys.
  • Experiments manipulated compatibility between actor and avatar perspectives.

    • Main Results:

    • Compatibility effects were found to be linked to the avatar's perspective, not the actor's.
    • Participants demonstrated the ability to disregard the avatar's perspective when necessary.
    • Automatic behavioral tendencies in compatibility tasks were shown to be flexible.

    Conclusions:

    • Automatic behavioral tendencies in spatial compatibility tasks are not as fixed as previously assumed.
    • Findings suggest that actors can manage perspective-taking with avatars, robots, and drones.
    • Results have implications for designing intuitive human-controlled robotic systems.