Trial reportPloS one2019
Nonverbal synchrony in virtual reality.
Trial report in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Virtual Reality-Based Social Musical Exergame Guided by Self-Determination Theory for Young Adults With Depression and Anxiety: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Five canonical findings from 30 years of psychological experimentation in virtual reality.Nature human behaviour · 2025Review
- Partner gaze shapes the relationship between symptoms of psychopathology and interpersonal coordination.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Exploring the "Dark Matter" of Social Interaction: Systematic Review of a Decade of Research in Spontaneous Interpersonal Coordination.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- [Re]moving Bodies - A Shared Diminished Reality Installation for Exploring Relational Movement.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Body synchrony in triadic interaction.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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3 authors.
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Abstract
How might nonverbal synchrony naturally evolve in a social virtual reality environment? And how can avatar embodiment affect how participants coordinate nonverbally with each other? In the following pre-registered between-subjects experiment, we tracked the movements of pairs of users during a collaborative or competitive task in immersive virtual reality. Each conversational partner controlled either a customized avatar body or an abstract cube that responded to their movements. We compared the movements of the actual user pairs between the two conditions, and to an artificial "pseudosynchrony" dataset composed of the movements of randomly combined participant pairs who did not actually interact. We found stronger positive and negative correlations between real pairs compared to pseudosynchronous pairs, providing evidence for naturally occurring nonverbal synchrony between pairs in virtual reality. We discuss this in the context of the relationships between avatar appearance, task success, social closeness and social presence.
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