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Autori principali: Merz, Christian, Schach, Lukas, Fiedler, Marie Luisa, Lugrin, Jean-Luc, Wienrich, Carolin, Latoschik, Marc Erich
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04174
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author Merz, Christian
Schach, Lukas
Fiedler, Marie Luisa
Lugrin, Jean-Luc
Wienrich, Carolin
Latoschik, Marc Erich
author_facet Merz, Christian
Schach, Lukas
Fiedler, Marie Luisa
Lugrin, Jean-Luc
Wienrich, Carolin
Latoschik, Marc Erich
contents This paper introduces an unobtrusive in-situ measurement method to detect user behavior changes during arbitrary exposures in XR systems. Here, such behavior changes are typically associated with the Proteus effect or bodily affordances elicited by different avatars that the users embody in XR. We present a biometric user model based on deep metric similarity learning, which uses high-dimensional embeddings as reference vectors to identify behavior changes of individual users. We evaluate our model against two alternative approaches: a (non-learned) motion analysis based on central tendencies of movement patterns and subjective post-exposure embodiment questionnaires frequently used in various XR exposures. In a within-subject study, participants performed a fruit collection task while embodying avatars of different body heights (short, actual-height, and tall). Subjective assessments confirmed the effective manipulation of perceived body schema, while the (non-learned) objective analyses of head and hand movements revealed significant differences across conditions. Our similarity learning model trained on the motion data successfully identified the elicited behavior change for various query and reference data pairings of the avatar conditions. The approach has several advantages in comparison to existing methods: 1) In-situ measurement without additional user input, 2) generalizable and scalable motion analysis for various use cases, 3) user-specific analysis on the individual level, and 4) with a trained model, users can be added and evaluated in real time to study how avatar changes affect behavior.
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spellingShingle Unobtrusive In-Situ Measurement of Behavior Change by Deep Metric Similarity Learning of Motion Patterns
Merz, Christian
Schach, Lukas
Fiedler, Marie Luisa
Lugrin, Jean-Luc
Wienrich, Carolin
Latoschik, Marc Erich
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
This paper introduces an unobtrusive in-situ measurement method to detect user behavior changes during arbitrary exposures in XR systems. Here, such behavior changes are typically associated with the Proteus effect or bodily affordances elicited by different avatars that the users embody in XR. We present a biometric user model based on deep metric similarity learning, which uses high-dimensional embeddings as reference vectors to identify behavior changes of individual users. We evaluate our model against two alternative approaches: a (non-learned) motion analysis based on central tendencies of movement patterns and subjective post-exposure embodiment questionnaires frequently used in various XR exposures. In a within-subject study, participants performed a fruit collection task while embodying avatars of different body heights (short, actual-height, and tall). Subjective assessments confirmed the effective manipulation of perceived body schema, while the (non-learned) objective analyses of head and hand movements revealed significant differences across conditions. Our similarity learning model trained on the motion data successfully identified the elicited behavior change for various query and reference data pairings of the avatar conditions. The approach has several advantages in comparison to existing methods: 1) In-situ measurement without additional user input, 2) generalizable and scalable motion analysis for various use cases, 3) user-specific analysis on the individual level, and 4) with a trained model, users can be added and evaluated in real time to study how avatar changes affect behavior.
title Unobtrusive In-Situ Measurement of Behavior Change by Deep Metric Similarity Learning of Motion Patterns
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04174