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Effects of humanness of virtual agents on impression formation

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Eva Krumhuber,

Arvid Kappas,

Mark Hall,

John HodgsonAuthors Info & Claims

FAA '12: Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation

Article No.: 7, Page 1

https://doi.org/10.1145/2491599.2491606

Published: 21 September 2012 Publication History

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In recent years, the use of virtual agents that act as an interface between human and computer has become increasingly popular. Such agents typically appear as embodied characters and display various types of life-like behaviour. To ensure the acceptance with the user, questions relating to the humanness of their appearance play an important role. How realistic and human-like should a character look like? Agents which lack human realism may be less anthropomorphized and evoke fewer social responses. On the other hand, if they resemble humans too closely they may be perceived as unpleasant and produce feelings of uncanniness [Mori 1970].

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Haslam, N., Loughnan, S., Kashima, Y., and Bain, P. 2008. Attributing and denying humanness to others. European Review of Social Psychology 19, 55--85.

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Mori, M. 1970. The uncanny valley. Energy 7, 33--35.

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Effects of humanness of virtual agents on impression formation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Decision support systems
      1. Expert systems

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FAA '12: Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Facial Analysis and Animation

September 2012

24 pages

ISBN:9781450317931

DOI:10.1145/2491599

Conference Chairs:
Michael Pucher
FTW
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Darren Cosker
Uni. of Bath
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Gregor Hofer
FTW/Speech Graphics
,
Michael Berger
Uni. of Edinburgh/Speech Graphics
,
William Smith
University of York

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 21 September 2012

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