The degree to which the cultural ideal is internalized predicts judgments of male and female physical attractiveness

BJ Ridley, PL Cornelissen, N Maalin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We used attractiveness judgements as a proxy to visualize the ideal female and male body
for male and female participants and investigated how individual differences in the …

From avatars to agents: Self-related cues through embodiment and personalization affect body perception in virtual reality

ML Fielder, E Wolf, N Dollinger, D Mal… - … on Visualization and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our work investigates the influence of self-related cues in the design of virtual humans on
body perception in virtual reality. In a 2× 2 mixed design, 64 participants faced photorealistic …

Softdeca: Computationally efficient physics-based facial animations

N Wagner, M Botsch, U Schwanecke - Proceedings of the 16th ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Facial animation on computationally weak systems is still mostly dependent on linear
blendshape models. However, these models suffer from typical artifacts such as loss of …

Men's perception of current and ideal body composition and the influence of media internalization on body judgements

V Groves, BJ Ridley, PL Cornelissen, N Maalin… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction To determine men's body ideals and the factors that influence these choices,
this study used a matrix of computer generated (CG) male bodies (based on an analysis of …

Resize me! Exploring the user experience of embodied realistic modulatable avatars for body image intervention in virtual reality

N Döllinger, E Wolf, D Mal, S Wenninger… - Frontiers in Virtual …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Obesity is a serious disease that can affect both physical and psychological well-being. Due
to weight stigmatization, many affected individuals suffer from body image disturbances …

Personal ideal, cultural ideal and optimal attractiveness: Are these constructs for body size and shape the same or different?

BJ Ridley, PL Cornelissen, N Maalin, S Mohamed… - Body Image, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been an assumption in the literature that the three concepts of ideal body shape
(personal ideal, cultural ideal, and the most attractive body shape) are effectively the same …

Testing the validity of online psychophysical measurement of body image perception

J Gumančík, PL Cornelissen, LG Brokjøb, BJ Ridley… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
This body image study tests the viability of transferring a complex psychophysical paradigm
from a controlled in-person laboratory task to an online environment. 172 female participants …

Drawings or 3D models: Do illustration methods matter when assessing perceived body size and body dissatisfaction?

C Sob, L Giacone, K Staub, N Bender, M Siegrist… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Research has reported that both men and women experience body dissatisfaction. Among
other instruments, a widely used method to assess perceived body size and body …

Reduced body-image disturbance by body-image interventions is associated with neural-response changes in visual and social processing regions: a preliminary …

Y Hamamoto, K Oba, R Ishibashi, Y Ding… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Body-image disturbance is a major factor in the development of eating
disorders, especially among young women. There are two main components: perceptual …

Inside humans: Creating a simple layered anatomical model from human surface scans

M Komaritzan, S Wenninger, M Botsch - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 - frontiersin.org
3D morphable models are widely used to describe the variation of human body shapes.
However, these models typically focus on the surface of the human body, since the …