Close Encounters of the Virtual Kind: Agents Simulating Copresence

Figures & data

Figure 1 Appearance and animation of the agent.

Figure 2 Combined variables.

Figure 3 Subject interacting with agent in the gallery.

Table 1 Results Post-Questionnaire

	X1 (agent)		X2 (no-agent)
	Mean	Stdev	Mean	Stdev
1. Immersion	5.34	0.99	3.80	0.65
2. Involvement	5.05	0.76	3.85	0.63
3. Awareness	4.80	0.82	3.35	1.03
4. CVE	5.60	1.08	5.20	0.63
5. Interface	4.90	0.92	4.37	1.38

Table 2 Descriptive Statistics for Presence Means

Variable: Presence
					95% Confidence interval for mean
	N	Mean	Std. deviation	Std. error	Lower bound	Upper bound	Minimum	Maximum
X1	10	5.1240	.7137	.2257	4.6135	5.6345	3.62	5.77
X2	10	3.7530	.5197	.1644	3.3812	4.1248	2.92	4.46
Total	20	4.4385	.9294	.2078	4.0035	4.8735	2.92	5.77

Figure 4 Mean presence scores.

Table 3 Independent Samples Test of Presence Mean

Levene's test for equality of variances			t-test for equality of means
	F	Sig.	t	df	Sig. (2-tailed)	Mean diff.	Std. error diff.	95% C.I.
								Lower	Upper
Equal  variances  assumed	.529	.476	4.911	18	<0.0005	1.3710	.2792	.7845	.529
Equal  variances  not assumed			4.911	16.451	<0.0005	1.3710	.2792	.7805

Figure 5 Chat log extract 1.

Figure 6 Chat log extract 2.