The Impact of Varying Resolution and Motion Realism of Avatars in Augmented Reality-Supported, Virtually Co-located Sales Consultations

The use of avatars in AR-based remote cooperation has gained a lot of interest in research and practice, as it allows remote cooperators to be virtually co-located. The realism of avatars has been found to be key to their successful use and is mainly affected by avatar resolution and movement realism. As hardware limits and difficulties to create human-like animations create challenges for designers to develop realistic avatars, design knowledge is needed to create suitable and feasible representations of avatars. However, there is hardly any work addressing this challenge. This paper presents an initial study that investigates this area and compares the impact of avatar resolution and movement realism on remote cooperation.

在基于增强现实（AR）的远程协作中，虚拟化身的应用在研究与实践领域引发了广泛关注，因为它能让远程协作者实现虚拟同处一地。研究发现，虚拟化身的真实感是其成功应用的关键，且主要受化身分辨率和动作真实感的影响。由于硬件限制以及制作逼真人类动画的困难，设计师在开发逼真的虚拟化身时面临诸多挑战，因此需要设计知识来创建合适且可行的虚拟化身呈现方式。然而，几乎没有相关研究应对这一挑战。本文开展了一项初步研究，对该领域进行了探讨，并比较了虚拟化身分辨率和动作真实感对远程协作的影响。