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This, however, cannot be warranted when users employ noncontinuous locomotion techniques, such as teleportation, which may cause confusion among bystanders.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            In this paper, we pursue two approaches to create a pleasant experience for both the moving user and the bystanders observing that movement. First, we will introduce a\n            <jats:italic>Smart Avatar<\/jats:italic>\n            system that delivers continuous full-body human representations for noncontinuous locomotion in shared virtual reality (VR) spaces.\n            <jats:italic>Smart Avatars<\/jats:italic>\n            imitate their assigned user's real-world movements when close-by and autonomously navigate to their user when the distance between them exceeds a certain threshold, i.e., after the user teleports. As part of the\n            <jats:italic>Smart Avatar<\/jats:italic>\n            system, we implemented four avatar transition techniques and compared them to conventional avatar locomotion in a user study, revealing significant positive effects on the observers' spatial awareness, as well as pragmatic and hedonic quality scores.\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            Second, we introduce the concept of\n            <jats:italic>Stuttered Locomotion<\/jats:italic>\n            , which can be applied to any continuous locomotion method. By converting a continuous movement into short-interval teleport steps, we provide the merits of non-continuous locomotion for the moving user while observers can easily keep track of their path. 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