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Social and visual style in virtual pedagogical agents

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Summary, in English

The paper addresses aspects of virtual pedagogical agents’ visual style (realism – iconization) in relation to their social style (task oriented – relation oriented). Two studies are presented that investigate which visual and social styles users prefer and how they articulate their preferences. The first study involved 42 university students; the second study involved 90 elementary school children. Special emphasis was put upon two hypotheses, grounded in cognitive theory: (i) iconized visualization may be better suited for representing a relation oriented, subjective agent – and therefore preferred by users who prefer a relation oriented agent; (ii) realistic visualization may be better suited for representing a task oriented, objective agent – and therefore preferred by users who prefer a task oriented agent.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the Workshop on Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors, 10th International Conference on User Modelling, (UM’05)

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Learning

Conference name

Workshop: Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors, 10th International Conference on User Modelling (UM'05)

Conference date

2005-07-24 - 2005-07-29

Status

Published