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arxiv: 1907.07466 · v1 · pith:55S2MISGnew · submitted 2019-07-17 · 💻 cs.HC

Beyond Human: Animals as an Escape from Stereotype Avatars in Virtual Reality Games

Andrey Krekhov , Sebastian Cmentowski , Katharina Emmerich , Jens Kr\"uger This is my paper

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Nonhumanoid animal avatars create high virtual body ownership and game enjoyment in VR.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper sets out to establish that the illusion of virtual body ownership reaches high levels when players take on nonhumanoid forms such as a scorpion, a rhino, or a bird. The authors design controls and mechanics around each creature's distinct abilities, then measure player responses in a quantitative study. A sympathetic reader would care because the results point to a practical way for VR games to escape the narrow range of human-shaped avatars while still delivering strong immersion through body transformation and new skills.

Core claim

The authors hypothesize and validate through quantitative evaluation that nonhumanoid avatars have high potential for inducing the illusion of virtual body ownership, leading to high game enjoyment. The experiment with three different creatures reveals a correlation between IVBO and enjoyment, establishing nonhumanoid creatures as a meaningful design space for VR games.

What carries the argument

Illusion of virtual body ownership (IVBO) measured for nonhuman morphologies equipped with animal-specific controls and superhuman abilities.

If this is right

  • Embodying creatures with extra body parts and superhuman skills produces high game enjoyment.
  • IVBO strength correlates positively with reported game enjoyment.
  • Novel design implications emerge for controls and mechanics tied to specific animal abilities.
  • Nonhumanoid forms supply a usable alternative to human stereotype avatars in VR games.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar avatar designs could be tested in non-entertainment VR settings such as training or social spaces to increase presence.
  • Future work might compare enjoyment across a wider set of morphologies to identify which body features drive the IVBO effect most strongly.
  • The correlation finding suggests body-ownership measures could serve as a quick proxy for predicting enjoyment in new avatar prototypes.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen controls, mechanics, and three specific creatures are representative enough to support broader claims about nonhumanoid avatars while isolating IVBO effects from novelty or overall game quality.

What would settle it

A follow-up experiment with additional nonhumanoid avatars that finds no correlation between IVBO ratings and enjoyment scores, or enjoyment levels no higher than those for human avatars, would challenge the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1907.07466 by Andrey Krekhov, Jens Kr\"uger, Katharina Emmerich, Sebastian Cmentowski.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: We explore the potential of nonhuman avatars in VR games. The evaluation of our three escape room games for different animal types reveals [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Rhino Room. Players had to mimic the rhino posture (left) and escape from a burning zoo. The blue marked water tap (middle) had to be removed from the wall (right) to extinguish the fire. To open the yellow marked door, players had to use the horn and remove a lock bar (cf [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Scorpion Room. Players remained in an upright posture (left) and used the controllers to open and close the claws and initiate a tail strike. To escape from the labyrinth, players had to cut away several branches (right). The exit-blocking emperor scorpion (middle) had to be pelted with poisoned fruits. The avatar tail was used to pick up these fruits. Aiming during the throwing process was done via a prop… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Before each game, players were asked to act in front of a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Virtual reality setups are particularly suited to create a tight bond between players and their avatars up to a degree where we start perceiving the virtual representation as our own body. We hypothesize that such an illusion of virtual body ownership (IVBO) has a particularly high, yet overlooked potential for nonhumanoid avatars. To validate our claim, we use the example of three very different creatures---a scorpion, a rhino, and a bird---to explore possible avatar controls and game mechanics based on specific animal abilities. A quantitative evaluation underpins the high game enjoyment arising from embodying such nonhuman morphologies, including additional body parts and obtaining respective superhuman skills, which allows us to derive a set of novel design implications. Furthermore, the experiment reveals a correlation between IVBO and game enjoyment, which is a further indication that nonhumanoid creatures offer a meaningful design space for VR games worth further investigation.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper hypothesizes that the illusion of virtual body ownership (IVBO) has particularly high potential for nonhumanoid avatars in VR games. It demonstrates this by implementing three creature avatars (scorpion, rhino, bird) with controls and mechanics derived from their specific abilities, then reports a quantitative user study showing high enjoyment from these embodiments plus a correlation between IVBO scores and game enjoyment, from which design implications are derived.

Significance. If the user-study results prove robust after controls and statistical details are supplied, the work identifies a concrete expansion of the VR avatar design space beyond humanoid stereotypes, with potential to increase creative options and engagement in games by exploiting additional body parts and superhuman skills.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that a quantitative evaluation underpins the high game enjoyment and the IVBO-enjoyment correlation supplies no sample size, statistical details, controls, or exclusion criteria, leaving the central empirical support for the correlation unsupported by visible evidence.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the reported correlation between IVBO and game enjoyment does not indicate whether confounding factors such as novelty of the nonhumanoid forms or the inherent appeal of the animal-specific mechanics (flight, charge, sting) were partialled out; without such isolation the attribution to morphology itself remains untested.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for these constructive comments on the abstract. We address each point below and indicate where revisions will be made to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that a quantitative evaluation underpins the high game enjoyment and the IVBO-enjoyment correlation supplies no sample size, statistical details, controls, or exclusion criteria, leaving the central empirical support for the correlation unsupported by visible evidence.

    Authors: The abstract is constrained by length limits and therefore omits the detailed statistics, which appear in full in Sections 4 (Methods: N=24 participants after exclusions, questionnaire instruments, procedure) and 5 (Results: Pearson correlation r=0.62, p<0.01 between IVBO and enjoyment). We will revise the abstract to incorporate the sample size, the correlation coefficient and significance, and a brief note on exclusion criteria. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the reported correlation between IVBO and game enjoyment does not indicate whether confounding factors such as novelty of the nonhumanoid forms or the inherent appeal of the animal-specific mechanics (flight, charge, sting) were partialled out; without such isolation the attribution to morphology itself remains untested.

    Authors: The reported correlation is presented as an exploratory finding across three morphologically distinct avatars rather than a claim of isolated causation. The within-subjects design and use of three different creatures provide some control for individual differences, but we did not include a separate condition that orthogonalizes novelty or mechanic appeal from morphology. We will add an explicit limitations paragraph discussing these potential confounds and their implications for interpreting the correlation. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical user study with no derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper reports an empirical user study involving questionnaires on IVBO and enjoyment for three animal avatars. No equations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or derivation chains appear in the provided text. The reported correlation is a direct statistical observation from participant data and does not reduce to any self-definition, fitted-input renaming, or self-citation load-bearing premise. The central claim rests on experimental measurements rather than any closed logical loop. This is the expected outcome for a non-theoretical HCI study.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Empirical HCI study; no mathematical free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced.

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