Attractiveness and Confidence in Walking Style of Male and Female Virtual 
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Thaler, A; Bieg, A; Mahmood, N; Black, MJ; Mohler, BJ; Troje, NF

doi:10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00190

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Attractiveness and Confidence in Walking Style of Male and Female Virtual Characters

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Bieg, A
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Black, MJ
Dept. Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Thaler, A., Bieg, A., Mahmood, N., Black, M., Mohler, B., & Troje, N. (2020). Attractiveness and Confidence in Walking Style of Male and Female Virtual Characters. In 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (pp. 679-680). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. doi:10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00190.

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Abstract

Animated virtual characters are essential to many applications. Little is known so far about biological and personality inferences made from a virtual character’s body shape and motion. Here, we investigated how sex-specific differences in walking style relate to the perceived attractiveness and confidence of male and female virtual characters. The characters were generated by reconstructing body shape and walking motion from optical motion capture data. The results suggest that sexual dimorphism in walking style plays a different role in attributing biological and personality traits to male and female virtual characters. This finding has important implications for virtual character animation.