TY - GEN
T1 - Can We Take Out CARLA from the Uncanny Valley? Analyzing Avatar Design of an Educational Conversational Agent
AU - Macias-Huerta, Pablo Isaac
AU - Lecona-Valdespino, Carlos Natanael
AU - Santamaría-Bonfil, Guillermo
AU - Marmolejo-Ramos, Fernando
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The integration of conversational agents into virtual-reality educational environments holds immense promise. However, the uncanny valley phenomenon looms as a critical challenge, potentially impacting the effectiveness of these educational agents. This manuscript delves into the pivotal role of avatar design within virtual-reality educational systems and its implications for user experience during learning sessions. In this work, a comprehensive comparison of two distinct avatars used by a virtual-reality conversational educational agent was undertaken, exploring their impact on user acceptance and enjoyability. Through user feedback, the avatar design that mitigates the uncanny valley effect was determined, ultimately allowing to choose the best avatar to enhance human-computer interaction.
AB - The integration of conversational agents into virtual-reality educational environments holds immense promise. However, the uncanny valley phenomenon looms as a critical challenge, potentially impacting the effectiveness of these educational agents. This manuscript delves into the pivotal role of avatar design within virtual-reality educational systems and its implications for user experience during learning sessions. In this work, a comprehensive comparison of two distinct avatars used by a virtual-reality conversational educational agent was undertaken, exploring their impact on user acceptance and enjoyability. Through user feedback, the avatar design that mitigates the uncanny valley effect was determined, ultimately allowing to choose the best avatar to enhance human-computer interaction.
KW - Avatar design
KW - Conversational agent
KW - Educational agent
KW - Educational environments
KW - FACS
KW - Uncanny Valley
KW - Virtual reality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184279334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-51940-6_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-51940-6_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85184279334
SN - 978-3-031-51939-0
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 50
EP - 57
BT - Advances in Computational Intelligence
A2 - Calvo, Hiram
A2 - Martínez-Villaseñor, Lourdes
A2 - Ponce, Hiram
A2 - Zatarain Cabada, Ramón
A2 - Montes Rivera, Martín
A2 - Mezura-Montes, Efrén
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
CY - Cham, Switzerland
T2 - 16th Workshop on Intelligent Learning Environments, WILE 2023, 16th Workshop of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2023 and 5th Workshop on New Trends in Computational Intelligence and Applications, CIAPP 2023 were held jointly with 22nd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2023
Y2 - 13 November 2023 through 18 November 2023
ER -