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Ascribed Gender and Characteristics of a Visually Androgynous Teachable Agent.

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Author

Editor

  • Timothy Bickmore
  • Stacy Marsella
  • C. Sidner

Summary, in English

The chapter explores how users ascribe gender to a visually androgynous teachable agent, and if and how the ascribed gender can influence the perceived personality characteristics of the agent. Previous studies have shown positive effects of using agents with more neutral or androgynous appearances, for instance, a more gender neutral agent evoked more positive attitudes on females than did a more stereotypical female agent [1] and androgynous agents were less abused than female agents [2]. Another study showed that even though an agent was visually androgynous, the user typically ascribed a gender to it [3].

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

232-235

Publication/Series

Intelligent Virtual Agents : 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014, Proceedings / Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volume

8637

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Learning
  • Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)

Keywords

  • visually androgynous
  • attitudes
  • teachable agent
  • gender

Status

Published

Research group

  • Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS)

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0302-9743
  • ISSN: 1611-3349
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-09766-4
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-09767-1