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Knowing is Trusting! The Influence of Familiarity on the Perception of Intelligent Virtual Agents

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Figure 1: Illustration of familiarity in intelligent virtual agents: (A) picture of real human, (B) the familiar agent created from it, and (C) the unfamiliar agent created from a non-existent person with similar visual appearance, such as hairstyle, skin color, eyes color, or clothes.

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

DOI: 10.1145/3717511.3747072

Authors: Anastasia Poletaykina, Lucie Kruse, Frank Steinicke

Institution: Universität Hamburg

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: European Commission, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme

Awards: G3586148180, A toolset for hyper-realistic and XR-based human-human and human-machine interactions