Immersive virtual reality (VR) that utilizes head-mounted displays (HMD) is one of the key
emerging technologies of the 21st century and has drawn keen attention from consumers …

Social presence, or the feeling of being there with a “real” person, is a crucial component of
interactions that take place in virtual reality. This paper reviews the concept, antecedents …

Immersive virtual reality technologies are used in a wide range of fields such as training,
education, health, and research. Many of these applications include virtual humans that are …

When people are in emotional distress, they often seek support. Virtual humans may provide
unique and complementary benefits to human support provision, given that virtual humans …

This paper presents two studies investigating how physically remote telexistence users wish
to see other users visualized as virtual avatars in a) augmented reality, and b) immersive …

Cyberbullying is a social problem in the digital age. Online social networks have been
reported to be linked with cyberbullying, but the links remain unclear. Our research question …

ABSTRACT The proliferation of Virtual Reality (VR) over the past decades has introduced a
tool to research that holds the promise of providing a means to overcoming drawbacks of …

Purpose Online games are popular electronic commerce platforms in which gamers use
avatars to interact with others. Avatar identification (the extent to which gamers regard …

Background and objectives Face-to-face and text-based social support have been shown to
attenuate stress responses in past studies. Yet as social interactions increasingly take place …

Although social anxiety disorders (SADs) are increasingly treated by means of virtual cue
exposure, the mechanisms leading to sufficient anxiety levels and thus to a success of virtual …