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Avatars in the Working Environment

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Avatar - Definition• There are many

definitions of the word avatar:– An Avatar is Divinity

taking a human form. – Avatar is a character that

you can personalize and use when interacting with friends online, creating your own unique persona.

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Important• Thousands of real-world

employees are beginning to use avatars as part of their regular jobs.

• There are many companies that have been using Avatars to deal with customers and internal matters:– IBM, Accenture, Cisco, State

Farm, Intel, BP and Wells Fargo.

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Avatar – Main Activities• Employees are logging into

virtual worlds and use avatars to:– Brainstorm with colleagues, – Recruit employees, – Sell to customers, – Attend leadership training, – Manage programs, direct

operation centers, – And collaborate with company

groups around the world.

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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 a virtual world than it is to fly, drive and host a live meeting where people meet face to face.

– Document sharing and all forms of AV as well as tracking methods, create a richer, more interesting environment with contextual clues about who's interested and who's paying attention.

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Avatar – Benefits• You can do things with

avatars that you can't do in the real world:– You can customize your

avatar by picking your appearance, role, personality, size, gender and race; you can have total control over its movements.

– Puppeteering an avatar is a whole lot of fun.

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Avatar – Benefits

• People become more interested:– As a result of this

intensity, avatars create the emotional and social connections necessary for the most valuable business conversations.

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Avatar – Problems

• Using Avatars can offer some problems since it creates an imaginary world with characters that don't exist.

• It can develop an Internet Addiction Disorder with a major impact on our mental health (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 imaginary and 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 seek new 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 differences between Neverland and our Real World.

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Roberto Lico Reis

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