This paper presents some insights into the effect of ‘virtual gender ’ on the way people interact with, make sense of, and build relationships with conversational agents. The focus is on the linkage between sex stereotypes and aggression, in the form of verbal abuse towards the machine. Implications for design of embodied conversational agents are discussed.
Sex stereotypes and conversational agents
De Angeli, Antonella;
2006-01-01
Abstract
This paper presents some insights into the effect of ‘virtual gender ’ on the way people interact with, make sense of, and build relationships with conversational agents. The focus is on the linkage between sex stereotypes and aggression, in the form of verbal abuse towards the machine. Implications for design of embodied conversational agents are discussed.File in questo prodotto:
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