AUTHOR=Taylor Donna A. , Dando Coral J. TITLE=Eyewitness Memory in Face-to-Face and Immersive Avatar-to-Avatar Contexts JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00507 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00507 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Technological advances offer possibilities for innovation in the way eyewitness testimony is elicited. Typically, this occurs face-to-face. We investigated whether a virtual environment, where interviewer and eyewitness communicate as avatars, might confer advantages by attenuating the social and situational demands of a face-to-face interview, releasing more cognitive resources for invoking episodic retrieval mode. In conditions of intentional encoding, eyewitnesses were interviewed 48 h later, either face-to-face or in a virtual environment (