Effect of Instructor’s Popularity Changed by Avatar’s Appearance on Active Participation in Live Online Lectures

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  • Amemiya Tomohiro
    Virtual Reality Educational Research Center, The University of Tokyo
  • Aoyama Kazuma
    Virtual Reality Educational Research Center, The University of Tokyo
  • Ito Kenichiro
    Virtual Reality Educational Research Center, The University of Tokyo

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  • 遠隔講義における講師アバタの見かけによって変化する受講希望度が授業への積極的参加行動に与える効果―オンライン授業への導入事例―

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<p>Due to COVID-19, university lectures in Japan faced a change of face-toface lecture to a live online lecture. However, students at home need extra efforts to stay engaged to online lectures. This paper aims to increase engaged participants by changing the instructorߣs face shown over the lecture slide. First, students selected an in-favor and out-of-favor instructor photo which was both used to animate facial expressions in real-time using an open source deepfake software “Avatarify”. Students posted comments during the lecture and answered a simple quiz at the end. No significant difference was found for the quiz result, although the number of posting comments increased for the favorable photo. Therefore, we speculate that facial appearance influences the engagement of student participation in a live online lecture.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390006065652361344
  • NII Article ID
    130008014116
  • DOI
    10.18974/tvrsj.26.1_86
  • ISSN
    24239593
    1344011X
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
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