The importance of interface agent visual presence: Voice alone is less effective in impacting young women's attitudes toward engineering

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4744 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 214-222

  Rosenberg Kima, Rinat B ^a   Baylor, Amy L ^a   Plant, E Ashby ^a   Doerr, Celeste E ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic interface agents; Attitude change; Computer based social modeling; Persuasion

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC INTERFACE AGENTS; ATTITUDE CHANGE; COMPUTER-BASED SOCIAL MODELING;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 38149091030     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77006-0_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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