Virtual Chironomia: Developing Standards for Non-verbal Communication in Virtual Worlds

Authors

  • Gustav Verhulsdonck New Mexico State University
  • Jacquelyn Ford Morie University of Southern California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4101/jvwr.v2i3.657

Keywords:

virtual worlds, standards, non-verbal communication, computer-mediated communication (CMC), rhetoric, avatars, embodied conversational agents, deictics, proxemics, symbolic interaction, gestures.

Abstract

Online virtual worlds offer new ways to explore evolving forms of social interaction, including the use of non-verbal elements used in conjunction with other communication modalities of text and voice. Ancient rhetorician Cicero coined the term

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Published

2009-09-16

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Peer Reviewed Research Papers