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Users can adopt an avatar's perspective in digital tasks, influencing their responses. This perspective-taking is possible even when unnecessary but requires specific contextual factors, like agency, to be effective.

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  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Virtual Reality

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  • Users interact with virtual representations (avatars) in digital applications.
  • Understanding how avatars influence user cognition is crucial for designing immersive experiences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of avatars and their perspectives on stimulus-response compatibility.
  • To quantify perspective-taking in users interacting with avatars during a Simon task.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a Simon task with task-irrelevant avatars present.
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  • Varied angular disparities and avatar agency (hand movements) were manipulated across experiments.

Main Results:

  • Perspective-taking occurred with orthogonal stimulus-response mappings, creating avatar-centric compatibility effects.
  • Larger angular disparities initially reduced perspective-taking.
  • Enhanced avatar agency (hand movements) re-established perspective-taking and suggested trial-by-trial adaptation.

Conclusions:

  • Users can integrate avatar perspectives into their mental task representations, even when not required.
  • Contextual factors, such as a sense of agency, are critical for enabling avatar perspective-taking.
  • Findings have implications for designing user interfaces and virtual environments that leverage or mitigate perspective-taking effects.