Haptic emotional avatar: a challenge for serious game and edutainment

Abstract

Avatar plays a vital role to improve the degree of realism in virtual reality games. Current practice in virtual environment learning process showed that virtual reality game able to enhance and improve the learning environment process bv adding immersive aspect like believable avatar. In our research, we aim to create a realistic avatar based on haptic tactile freauencv. The created avatar will be eauipped with some intelligent and emotional features in order to support the learning process in virtual environment setting. To actualize our aim as well, several level of emotion strengths are used where the created avatar express their emotion through tactile freauencv and operated svnchronouslv with the avatar facial operation. We have conducted several experiments based on several freauencies of haptic tactile to show the visibility of haptic emotional avatar expression. The result proved that the use of several level of emotion strengths able to create emotional avatar expression and improve the realism of virtual reality games