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Evaluating the Gender Label in Virtual Babies Using an Interactive Environment

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: As the quest for high-level realism in virtual environments continues, there is a growing demand for accurate representations of human characteristics in Virtual Humans (VHs), including gender and emotions.Although people assign gender to VHs even without explicit cues, it is still unknown whether this bias endures during interactive engagement rather than passive video observation.This study aims to address this issue by conducting a perceptual study involving the evaluation of a genderless Virtual Baby (VB) in an interactive web environment.This study advances the understanding of gender assignment in interactive environments.

Source: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)

DOI: 10.1145/3717511.3749306

Authors: Victor Araujo, Gabriel Silva, Catherine Pelachaud, Angelo Costa, Soraia Musse

Institutions: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico