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Title | ||
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The Effect of Virtual Agent Gender and Embodiment on the Experiences and Performance of Students in Virtual Field Trips |
Abstract | ||
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In this paper, we explore how the embodiment and gender of a virtual instructor can affect social presence, spatial presence, perceived learning effectiveness, and performance of students in virtual field trips. A pilot study with 22 students was conducted in the spring of 2020 in a geoscience course at The Pennsylvania State University. Our results show that both gender and embodiment of a virtual instructor can affect the social and learning experiences of students. A female virtual instructor elicited higher levels of social presence, spatial presence, and perceived learning effectiveness compared to a male virtual instructor; and an embodied virtual instructor elicited a higher feeling of spatial presence compared to a disembodied virtual instructor. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2020 | 10.1109/TALE48869.2020.9368457 | 2020 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE) |
Keywords | DocType | ISSN |
embodied conversational agents,embodiment,gender,social presence,spatial presence,learning effectiveness | Conference | 2374-0191 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-7281-6943-9 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 8 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pejman Sajjadi | 1 | 3 | 6.14 |
| Jiayan Zhao | 2 | 6 | 7.09 |
| Jan Oliver Wallgrün | 3 | 7 | 6.75 |
| Tanya Furman | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Peter C. LaFemina | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Alex Fatemi | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Zachary E. Zidik | 7 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Alexander Klippel | 8 | 483 | 49.70 |