How social is social responses to computers? The function of the degree of anthropomorphism in computer representations

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1494-1509

  Gong, Li ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agents; Anthropomorphism; Computer representations; Human like; Social responses to computers

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; POLYNOMIALS;

ANTHROPOMORPHISM; COMPUTER REPRESENTATIONS; SOCIAL RESPONSES;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 42249104344     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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