Abstract
Technological advancements have endowed humans with the ability to connect and express themselves more naturally. As artificial intelligence, cloud rendering and motion capture technologies improve by leaps and bounds, computer-generated digital humans have extended their application to interdisciplinary research, offering novel paradigms for interaction design and body exploration. While the fundamental properties and connection modes of digital humans and the users remain further conceptual explication and practical guidance. This paper outlines the author's doctoral research in exploring the identity construction of digital humans through three research stages: Image Identification, Embodied Interaction and Identity Construction. The final goal is to devise a digital humans research framework rooted in the theory of embodied cognition. By reconceptualizing digital humans as the "extension of humans," the research findings extend insights to reinstate the subjectivity of human presence in the digital era.
Keywords
Digital Humans, Identity Construction, Embodied Cognition, Embodiment
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.776
Citation
Tai, Y.,and Wu, J.(2023) From Bodies in Technology to Digital Subjectivity: Research on the Identity Construction of Digital Humans, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.776
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From Bodies in Technology to Digital Subjectivity: Research on the Identity Construction of Digital Humans
Technological advancements have endowed humans with the ability to connect and express themselves more naturally. As artificial intelligence, cloud rendering and motion capture technologies improve by leaps and bounds, computer-generated digital humans have extended their application to interdisciplinary research, offering novel paradigms for interaction design and body exploration. While the fundamental properties and connection modes of digital humans and the users remain further conceptual explication and practical guidance. This paper outlines the author's doctoral research in exploring the identity construction of digital humans through three research stages: Image Identification, Embodied Interaction and Identity Construction. The final goal is to devise a digital humans research framework rooted in the theory of embodied cognition. By reconceptualizing digital humans as the "extension of humans," the research findings extend insights to reinstate the subjectivity of human presence in the digital era.