The Effect of Visual Gender on Abuse in Conversation with ECAs
(2012) Intelligent Virtual Agents 7502(IVA 2012). p.153-160- Abstract
- Previous studies have shown that female ECAs are more likely to be abused than male agents, which may cement gender stereotypes. In the study reported in this paper a visually androgynous ECA in the form of a teachable agent in an educational math game was compared with a female and male agent. The re-sults confirm that female agents are more prone to be verbally abused than male agents, but also show that the visually androgynous agent was less abused than the female although more than the male agent. A surprising finding was that very few students asked the visually androgynous agent whether it was a boy or a girl. These results suggest that androgyny may be a way to keep both genders represented, which is especially important in... (More)
- Previous studies have shown that female ECAs are more likely to be abused than male agents, which may cement gender stereotypes. In the study reported in this paper a visually androgynous ECA in the form of a teachable agent in an educational math game was compared with a female and male agent. The re-sults confirm that female agents are more prone to be verbally abused than male agents, but also show that the visually androgynous agent was less abused than the female although more than the male agent. A surprising finding was that very few students asked the visually androgynous agent whether it was a boy or a girl. These results suggest that androgyny may be a way to keep both genders represented, which is especially important in pedagogical settings, simultaneously lowering the abusive behavior and perhaps most important, loosen the connection between gender and abuse. (Less)
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- author
- Silvervarg, Annika ; Raukola, Kristin ; Haake, Magnus LU and Gulz, Agneta LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- embodied conversational agent, conversational pedagogical agent, teachable agent, off-task interaction, social conversation, visual aspects, visual gender, abuse
- host publication
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- editor
- Nakano, Yukiko ; Neff, Michael ; Paiva, Ana and Walker, Marilyn A.
- volume
- 7502
- issue
- IVA 2012
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- conference name
- Intelligent Virtual Agents
- conference location
- Santa Cruz, CA, United States
- conference dates
- 2012-09-12 - 2012-09-14
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84867517803
- ISBN
- 978-3-642-33196-1
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- dccb221f-eb0a-4507-afcc-5c3891b15679 (old id 3412342)
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