Human-avatar interaction and recognition memory according to interaction types and methods

For the several decades, researchers studied human-avatar interactions using a virtual reality (VR). However, speculation on the interaction between a human´s recognition memory and interaction types/methods has not enough considered yet. In the current study, we designed a VR interaction paradigm with two different types of human-avatar interaction including initiating and responding interactions, and we also included two interaction methods including a head-gazing and a hand-pointing. The result indicated that there are significant differences in the recognition memory between the initiating and responding interactions. However, we couldn´t find any significant effects of interaction methods in the current study. These results suggest that the human-avatar interaction may have similar patterns with the human-human interaction in the recognition memory, and methodological advances also required.