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Embodied conversational agents
Can a virtual cat persuade you?: the role of gender and realism in speaker persuasiveness
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SPSS for Psychologists: A Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows, Versions 12 and 13
SPSS for Psychologists: A Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows, Versions 12 and 13
I hate you! Disinhibition with virtual partners
Interacting with Computers
Avatars in social media: Balancing accuracy, playfulness and embodied messages
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Me, myself and I: The role of interactional context on self-presentation through avatars
Computers in Human Behavior
Mapping the demographics of virtual humans
BCS-HCI '07 Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: HCI...but not as we know it - Volume 2
SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows Version 15
SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows Version 15
Gender affordances of conversational agents
Interacting with Computers
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Physical attractiveness is an important cue for social interaction. Psychology studies have long shown that physical attractiveness can elicit positive personality attributions as well as positive behaviour towards other people. This effect is explained by the attractiveness stereotype. In this paper, we investigate whether this stereotype apply to the interaction with virtual agents. We report the results of two experiments where the attractiveness stereotype was tested with and without interaction with the agent. Results indicate a strong effect of the attractiveness stereotype, showing that users tend to form and maintain a better evaluation of attractive agents than of unattractive ones independent of actual interaction with the agent or the agents' ethnicity. Implications for design are discussed.