Face-to-face communication relies extensively on non-verbal cues (NVCs) which complement, or at times dominate, the communicative process as they convey emotions with intense salience, thus definitively affecting interpersonal communication. The capture, transference, and subsequent interpretation of NVCs becomes complicated in computer-mediated communicative processes, particularly in shared virtual worlds, for which there is growing interest both in regard to NVCs technological integration and their affective impact. This paper presents a between-groups experimental setup which is facilitated in immersive virtual reality (IVR), and examines NVCs effects on user experience, with special emphasis on degree of attention toward each NVC as an isolated controlled variable of a scripted performance by a virtual character (VC). This study aims to evaluate NVCs fidelity based on the capabilities of the motion-capture technologies utilized to address cue integration developmental challenges and examines NVCs impact on users' perceived realism of the VC, their empathy toward him, and the degree of social presence experienced. To meet the objectives set the affective impact of low-fidelity automated NVCs and high-fidelity real-time captured NVCs were compared. The findings of the evaluation suggest that although NVCs do impact user experience to an extent, their effects are notably more subtle compared to previous studies.

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探索非语言线索对沉浸式虚拟现实中用户体验的影响

面对面的交流广泛依赖于非语言线索（NVC），非语言线索补充或有时主导着交流过程，因为它们以强烈的显着性传达情感，从而最终影响人际交流。在计算机介导的交流过程中，非暴力沟通的捕获、转移和随后的解释变得复杂，特别是在共享虚拟世界中，人们对非暴力沟通的技术集成及其情感影响越来越感兴趣。本文提出了一种在沉浸式虚拟现实 (IVR) 中促进的组间实验设置，并研究了 NVC 对用户体验的影响，特别强调了对每个 NVC 的关注程度，将其作为虚拟现实脚本性能的独立控制变量。字符（VC）。本研究旨在根据用于解决线索整合发展挑战的动作捕捉技术的能力来评估 NVC 的保真度，并研究 NVC 对用户感知 VC 的真实性、他们对 VC 的同理心以及所经历的社交存在程度的影响。为了实现设定的目标，我们对低保真自动化 NVC 和高保真实时捕获的 NVC 的情感影响进行了比较。评估结果表明，尽管 NVC 确实在一定程度上影响用户体验，但与之前的研究相比，其影响明显更加微妙。