Do Children Accept Virtual Agents as Foreign Language Trainers?
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Deutsch
Original Tagungtitel:
Child-Robot Interaction @ Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2014 Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction: Social bonding, Learning, and Ethics. 17.06.2014, Aarhus, Dänemark
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Virtual (animated software) agents can train humans in
vocabulary learning. This has been successfully tested with adults and
more recently also with children. However, the question of how children
perceive a virtual agent training them had not been investigated. Here
we invited 25 children to evaluate their perception of a virtual and a
human trainer who presented written words in a foreign language on
videos; both the human trainer and the virtual agent additionally
performed a semantically related gesture for each word. Subjects rated
the trainers for features related to gestures and for their ?personalities?.
Subjects found human gestures better and gave the human trainer
higher sympathy scores; however, the overall difference between their
perception of virtual and human trainers was not significant.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Englischer Vortragstitel:
Do Children Accept Virtual Agents as Foreign Language Trainers?
Englische Kurzfassung:
Virtual (animated software) agents can train humans in
vocabulary learning. This has been successfully tested with adults and
more recently also with children. However, the question of how children
perceive a virtual agent training them had not been investigated. Here
we invited 25 children to evaluate their perception of a virtual and a
human trainer who presented written words in a foreign language on
videos; both the human trainer and the virtual agent additionally
performed a semantically related gesture for each word. Subjects rated
the trainers for features related to gestures and for their ?personalities?.
Subjects found human gestures better and gave the human trainer
higher sympathy scores; however, the overall difference between their
perception of virtual and human trainers was not significant.