Paper Info
Title
Looking The Part: The Effect Of Attire And Setting On Perceptions Of A Virtual Health Counselor
Abstract
The visual design of virtual agents and scenes presents developers with a plethora of choices. We conducted two studies in which we manipulated the design of a virtual health counselor agent's attire and its virtual environment. Our studies demonstrate that virtual agents dressed to fit their health care role are perceived to be more professional, trustworthy, reassuring, and more persuasive regarding medical decisions, compared to agents whose appearance is not role-appropriate. Furthermore, the effect of an agent's attire is greater than that of its virtual environment. The results of this research can help create visual guidelines for the development of virtual agents in tasks that rely on user trust.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3267851.3267915
18TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS (IVA'18)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual Agents, ECAs, Agent Appearance, Agent Perception
Health care,Internet privacy,Communication design,Virtual machine,Computer science,Trustworthiness,Multimedia,Perception
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeremy N. Bailenson111913.36
Stefan Olafsson213.40
Dina Utami342.83
Timothy Bickmore42581318.35