Virtual animals versus virtual robotic animals: The influence of appearance of game characters on empathy and immersion. Experiment (1). 2018-2019.

DOI

Data, ethical approval and experimental video game. Empathy and immersion toward virtual animal characters. The main research questions addressed in the experimental design are as follows: (1) Does game character appearance (Artificiality and Expressiveness) influence the level of self-reported situational empathy? (2) Does game character appearance (features pertaining to Artificiality and Expressiveness) influence the level of immersion? (3) Does dispositional, self-reported situational empathy correlate with immersion?

Universe: In total, we recruited 100 participants (between 18 to 25 years old, balanced for gender) from a university student population in the Netherlands. They received a course credit for their participation. They were randomly assigned to one the five groups.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/3DX4VN
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/3DX4VN
Provenance
Creator Sierra Rativa, Alexandra; Postma, Marie; van Zaanen, Menno
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Sierra Rativa, Alexandra; Postma, Marie; van Zaanen, Menno; DataverseNL
Publication Year 2019
Rights Any person can use the data collection in SPSS and the video game for academic purposes, however if the person wants to publish, then the research needs to have the following citation: Sierra, A., Postma, M., Van Zaanen, M. (2019). Virtual animals versus virtual robotic animals: The influence of appearance of game characters on empathy and immersion. Experimental Game called "Justin Beaver 3D"'. Tilburg University. Netherlands. The video game cannot be used for commercial purposes without permission of the main researcher (Alexandra Sierra Rativa); info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Contact Sierra Rativa, Alexandra (Tilburg University); Postma, Marie (Tilburg University); van Zaanen, Menno (Tilburg University)
Representation
Resource Type Experimental data and experimental video game; Dataset
Format application/x-spss-sav; application/pdf; application/x-rar-compressed
Size 20024; 138709; 47822; 781198150
Version 1.0
Discipline Humanities