Authors:
Tomoko Koda
;
Takuto Ishioh
;
Takafumi Watanabe
and
Yoshihiko Kubo
Affiliation:
Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Keyword(s):
Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA, Gesture, Self-adaptors, Non-verbal Behaviour, Gender, Evaluation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Conversational Agents
Abstract:
This paper reports how agents that performs gender-specific self-adaptors are perceived by Japanese evaluators depending on their gender. Human-human interactions among Japanese undergraduate students were analysed with respect to usage of gender-specific self-adaptors in a pre-experiment. Based on the results, a male and a female agent were animated to show these extracted self-adaptors. Evaluation of the interactions between agents that exhibit self-adaptors typically exhibited by human male and female indicated that there is a dichotomy on the impression on the agent between participants’ gender. Male participants showed more favourable impressions on agents that display feminine self-adaptors than masculine ones performed by the female agent, while female participants showed rigorous impressions toward feminine self-adaptors. Although the obtained results were limited to one culture and narrow age range, these results implies the importance of considering the use of self-adaptor
s and gender in successful human-agent interactions.
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