Gender affordances of conversational agents

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 139-153

  Brahnam, Sheryl ^a   De Angeli, Antonella ^b  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent abuse; Embodied conversational agents; Gender; LIWC; Sex stereotypes; Sexuality and HCI

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

AGENT ABUSE; EMBODIED CONVERSATIONAL AGENT; GENDER; LIWC; SEX STEREOTYPES; SEXUALITY AND HCI;

USER EXPERIENCE;

EID: 84862644614     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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