Effects of Virtual-Teacher Appearance and Student Gender on Lesson Effectiveness in Teaching About Social Issues

Tetsuya Matsui, Seiji Yamada, Seiji Yamada

2024

Abstract

Virtual teachers (VTs) are an area of focus for the practical application of virtual agents. We focused on a VT design method for teaching adults about social issues. On the basis of prior research, we hypothesized that a robot-like VT would be perceived by students as more neutral. To verify this hypothesis, we conducted a two-factor two-level experiment. One factor was the participants’ gender, and the other was the VTs’ appearance. We used two types of VTs: human-like and robot-like. In the experiment, these VTs gave a lesson about a quota system for females. The participants answered a questionnaire on how much they would favor introducing a quota system after watching a lesson movie presented by a VT. We conducted a two-way ANOVA for the result of the questionnaire. As a result, female participants were more strongly affected by the robot-like VT than the human-like VT. We suggest that this needs to be considered when designing VTs that teach about social issues.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Matsui T. and Yamada S. (2024). Effects of Virtual-Teacher Appearance and Student Gender on Lesson Effectiveness in Teaching About Social Issues. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-680-4, SciTePress, pages 198-204. DOI: 10.5220/0012310900003636

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart24,
author={Tetsuya Matsui and Seiji Yamada},
title={Effects of Virtual-Teacher Appearance and Student Gender on Lesson Effectiveness in Teaching About Social Issues},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART},
year={2024},
pages={198-204},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012310900003636},
isbn={978-989-758-680-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART
TI - Effects of Virtual-Teacher Appearance and Student Gender on Lesson Effectiveness in Teaching About Social Issues
SN - 978-989-758-680-4
AU - Matsui T.
AU - Yamada S.
PY - 2024
SP - 198
EP - 204
DO - 10.5220/0012310900003636
PB - SciTePress