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Power of Gijinka: Designing Virtual Teachers for Ecosystem Conservation Education

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HAI '21: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

Pages 328 - 331

https://doi.org/10.1145/3472307.3484650

Published: 09 November 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Online education systems are a hopeful tool for ecosystem conservation education and environmental education. An important factor of the systems is the appearance of virtual teachers (VTs). In this paper, I focused on the effect of anthropomorphic animal-like VTs for teaching issues related to invasive alien species. I hypothesized that such VTs have advantages of both human-like VTs (logicality, intelligence, and perception of having expert knowledge) and animal-like VTs (participation and affinity with animals). I conducted an experiment to verify this hypothesis. Participants watched a lesson movie in which VTs gave a lesson on the issue of invasive alien species and answered a questionnaire on their impression of the lesson and VTs and their awareness of the issue. I conducted a one-way ANOVA to analyze the experiment. As a result, anthropomorphic dog-like VTs more positively affected the participants’ awareness than human-like VTs. This suggests that anthropomorphic animal-like VTs are effective for ecosystem conservation education.

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Matsuia T(2024)Power of ‘Nekomimi’: animal-like anthropomorphic agents in environmental educationCogent Education10.1080/2331186X.2023.229517211:1Online publication date: 16-Jan-2024
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Yeh TTsau S(2022)Taking Cat Ears to Improve the Facial Emotions of Virtual YouTuber to Enhance the Immersion of Readers2022 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan10.1109/ICCE-Taiwan55306.2022.9869288(229-230)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Taiwan55306.2022.9869288

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HAI '21: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

November 2021

447 pages

ISBN:9781450386203

DOI:10.1145/3472307

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Kohei Ogawa
Nagoya University, Japan
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Tomoko Yonezawa
Kansai University, Japan
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Gale M. Lucas
USC Institute for Creative Technologies, United States
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Hirotaka Osawa
University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Wafa Johal
University of New South Wales, Australia
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Masahiro Shiomi,
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan

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Matsuia T(2024)Power of ‘Nekomimi’: animal-like anthropomorphic agents in environmental educationCogent Education10.1080/2331186X.2023.229517211:1Online publication date: 16-Jan-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2023.2295172
Yeh TTsau S(2022)Taking Cat Ears to Improve the Facial Emotions of Virtual YouTuber to Enhance the Immersion of Readers2022 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Taiwan10.1109/ICCE-Taiwan55306.2022.9869288(229-230)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Taiwan55306.2022.9869288

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