Article History
Received: 1 August 2022
Accepted: 16 March 2023
First Online: 6 April 2023
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was granted ethics committee approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB project number: 2025601; IRB review number: 267882) regarding ethical issues including consent to participant prior to collecting data from participants.
: Informed content was obtained from all participants. They understood that they have their own rights that are not to be infringed. The informed content addressed that participants have the right to decide what happens to the data gathered, to what they have said during the online experiment, as well as to any avatar images presented. It also explained that dataset collected during the experiment is not identifiable. Contact and affiliation information of the principal investor was presented, and the university’s Human Subjects Research Program/IRB was shared with participants regarding any questions or concerns about the study. We also obtained consent to publish results of the study in academic journals.