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Title: Assessing Self-Disclosure Willingness in Metaverse-Based Structured Group Encounter
Authors: Kawakita, Teru
Kanai, Hideaki
Keywords: Kansei (affective) engineering
Group therapy
Avatar
Metaverse
Human-computer interaction
Issue Date: 2024-07
Publisher: AHFE Open Access
Magazine name: AHFE International
Volume: 145
Start page: 78
End page: 85
DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005143
Abstract: Avatar-based communication in the metaverse offers a more extensive range of nonverbal information compared to traditional web-conferencing platforms. This study introduced a metaverse-based structured group encounter (M-SGE) and examined its effects on state anxiety, mood, and self-disclosure. The results indicated a significant reduction in state anxiety among participants following their involvement in M-SGE (p=.01, d=0.90). Additionally, there was a marked increase in the participants’ willingness to self-disclose (p=.019, d=-0.79). However, no significant differences in mood were observed before and after the M-SGE. The M-SGE offers the advantage of enabling communication through avatars for individuals perceiving face-to-face conversations as a challenge, regardless of time and place constraints. During the experiment, there were occasional instances of voice feedback and audio difficulties among participants, indicating the need for an improved communication environment.
Rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors. Teru Kawakita and Hideaki Kanai. AHFE International, Vol. 145, 2024, 78-85. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Licence CC-BY [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]. Original publication is available on AHFE Open Access via https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005143.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10119/19338
Material Type: publisher
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