task 3914 - presentation - avatars in the working environment
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Avatars in theWorking Environment
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Avatar - Definition There are many
definitions of the word
avatar: An Avatar is Divinitytaking a human form.
Avatar is a character that
you can personalize anduse when interacting withfriends online, creatingyour won unique persona.
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Important Thousands of real-world
employees are beginning to
use avatars as part of theirregular jobs.
There are many companiesthat have been using Avatars
to deal with customers andinternal matters: IBM, Accenture, Cisco, State
Farm, Intel, BP and Wells Fargo.
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Avatar - 2011
The Gartner Group
predicts that 80% of
us will use an
avatar at work by
the end of 2011.
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Avatar Benefits
They're practical:
it's easier, cheaper, greener, and
healthier to meet people in avirtual world than it is to fly, drive
and host a live meeting where
people shake real hands.
Document sharing in a richer,more interesting environment
provides more contextual clues
about who's interested and who's
paying attention.
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Avatar Benefits
They're practical:
it's easier, cheaper, greener, and
healthier to meet people in a virtualworld than it is to fly, drive and host
a live meeting where people shake
real hands.
Document sharing in a richer, more
interesting environment provides
more contextual clues about who's
interested and who's paying
attention.
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Avatar Benefits
People become more
interested: As a result of this
intensity, avatars create
the emotional and social
connections necessaryfor the most valuable
business conversations.
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Avatar Problems
Using Avatars can offersome problems since itcreates an imaginary worldwith characters that don'texist.
It can develop an InternetAddiction Disorder with a amajor impact on our mentalhealth (obsession).
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Avatar Problems It can interfere in our everyday
life and decision-making when
facing the real world.
It can give up or reduce
important family, social,
occupational, or recreational
activities in duration because the
user can get out of his imaginaryand fun world.
Feeling of incapacity to deal with
real life problems.
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Avatar Conclusion
The sense of engagement
that avatars can create will be
valuable as companies seeknew ways to design work that
is compelling and purposeful.
Avatars generate a kind of
fun that isn't the opposite of
work it's a reason that
people will engage their work.
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Avatar Conclusion
But we need to be
always aware of the
many differencesbetween Neverlandand
our Real World.
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