1. Mentor: Philipp Kraemer By: Jennifer Wu Use Netspeak So I Know You’re Real

2. Defining Virtual Worlds MMORPGSimulationsUser Creation

3. What Can We Find in Virtual Worlds? Business IBM Education Exhibit at UK Marketing Mercedes -Benz

4. The Digital Crowd: Anonymity

5. Computer-generated virtual agents Human-controlled avatars

6. What do avatars do?

8. Immersion: Default to Different Embodiment & Extension & Expression

9. Being a Part of the Digital Crowd Presence: realism Co-Presence: Interaction Presence + Co-Presence = Human-ness

10. The Big Question What factors influence the perception of human-ness in avatars?

11. Design Does style of language affect perception of humanness in avatars? IV: Human/non-human appearance Use of Netspeak or formal English in introduction

12. Procedure 83 students at the University of Kentucky participated in an online survey: Which is controlled by a human?

13. Conditions 1.Man with Netspeak/ Tiger with formal English 2.Man with formal engish/ Tiger with Netspeak 3.Images only 4.Text Only NetspeakFormal

14. The avatar that used Netspeak (behaved realistically) was more frequently perceived as human-controlled even when it looked like a tiger instead of a man (appeared realistically).

15. Control Group Results Choices of Human Controlled Avatar without Introductions Choices of Human Generated Introduction without Images

16. What does this mean? Style of language is a significant factor in behavioral realism. Utilizing Netspeak can promote presence in virtual interactions. Ummm....lyke... R u evn real?!?!?!? How do i no???????

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