Social and visual style in virtual pedagogical agents
(2005) Workshop: Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors, 10th International Conference on User Modelling (UM'05)- Abstract
- 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... (More)
- 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. (Less)
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- author
- Gulz, Agneta LU and Haake, Magnus LU
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- publishing date
- 2005
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors, 10th International Conference on User Modelling, (UM’05)
- pages
- 8 pages
- conference name
- Workshop: Adapting the Interaction Style to Affective Factors, 10th International Conference on User Modelling (UM'05)
- conference dates
- 2005-07-24 - 2005-07-29
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 41282b3f-0b00-4ca9-83d2-bd559a27bcd7 (old id 638335)
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