Slide 1: Avatars in the Working Environment
Slide 2: 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.
Slide 3: 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.
Slide 4: 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.
Slide 5: Avatar - 2011
• The Gartner Group predicts that 80% of us will use an avatar at work by the end of 2011.
Slide 6: 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.
Slide 7: 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.
Slide 8: 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.
Slide 9: 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).
Slide 10: 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.
Slide 11: 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.
Slide 12: Avatar – Conclusion
• But we need to be always aware of the many differences between Neverland and our Real World.
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