Visual femininity and masculinity in synthetic characters and patterns of affect
Author
Editor
- Ana Paiva
- Rui Prada
- Rosalind Picard
Summary, in English
It has been shown that users of a digital system perceive a more ‘masculine-sounding’ female voice as more persuasive and intelligent than a corresponding but more ‘feminine-sounding’ female voice. Our study explores
whether a parallel pattern of affectively colored evaluations can be elicited when femininity and masculinity are manipulated via visual cues instead of via
voice. 80 participants encountered synthetic characters, visually manipulated in terms of femininity and masculinity but with voice, spoken content, linguistic style and role of characters held constant. Evaluations of the two female characters differed in accordance with stereotype predictions – with the exception of competence-related traits; for the two male characters evaluations differed very little. The pattern for male versus female characters was slightly in opposite to stereotype predictions. Possible explanations for these results are proposed. In conclusion we discuss the value of being aware of how different traits in synthetic characters may interact.
whether a parallel pattern of affectively colored evaluations can be elicited when femininity and masculinity are manipulated via visual cues instead of via
voice. 80 participants encountered synthetic characters, visually manipulated in terms of femininity and masculinity but with voice, spoken content, linguistic style and role of characters held constant. Evaluations of the two female characters differed in accordance with stereotype predictions – with the exception of competence-related traits; for the two male characters evaluations differed very little. The pattern for male versus female characters was slightly in opposite to stereotype predictions. Possible explanations for these results are proposed. In conclusion we discuss the value of being aware of how different traits in synthetic characters may interact.
Publishing year
2007
Language
English
Pages
654-665
Publication/Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction)
Volume
4738/2007
Links
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
Springer
Topic
- Learning
Conference name
The 2:nd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2007)
Conference date
2007-09-12 - 2007-09-14
Conference place
Lisbon, Portugal
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1611-3349
- ISSN: 0302-9743
- ISBN: 978-3-540-74888-5