Does social desirability bias favor humans? Explicit–implicit evaluations of synthesized speech support a new HCI model of impression management

Mitchell, Wade J.; Ho, Chin-Chang; Patel, Himalaya; MacDorman, Karl F.

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.09.002

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“…Relative to a digitally recorded human speaker with high expertise, persuasiveness was predicted to change for an uncanny computer representation. Predictions were based on two competing mechanisms: (a) The animated source's decreased human realism casts it into an outgroup, decreasing persuasion (MacDorman, Coram, et al, 2010;MacDorman, Green, et al, 2009;MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006;Mitchell, Ho, et al, 2011), or (b) the source's unusual appearance and behavior elicit greater message-relevant attention, increasing persuasion (Patel et al, 2014). To test these predictions in an ethical dilemma, this study used three 2-level factors: depiction, motion quality, and advice.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…This study's measures were selfreported. However, subjective effects tend to be larger than other kinds of effects (Mitchell, Ho, et al, 2011;Yee, Bailenson, & Rickertsen, 2007). Even when using visual analogue scales, a general problem of validity exists with post-hoc subjective accounts of interaction (Cassell & Tartaro, 2007;Gardner & Martin, 2007;Slater & Garau, 2007).…”

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“…These mechanisms are derived from theories of the uncanny valley: One mechanism predicts that the uncanny valley decreases persuasiveness (e.g., through outgroup derogation, MacDorman, Coram, et al, 2010;MacDorman, Green, et al, 2009;MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006;Mitchell, Ho, et al, 2011), and the other mechanism predicts that it increases persuasiveness (e.g., through increased message-relevant attention, Cheetham et al, 2014;Moore, 2012;Patel et al, 2014). The corresponding predictions were tested in the experiment presented here.…”

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Sending an Avatar to Do a Human's Job: Compliance with Authority Persists Despite the Uncanny Valley

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Just as physical appearance affects social influence in human communication, it may also affect the processing of advice conveyed through avatars, computer-animated characters, and other human-like interfaces. Although the most persuasive computer interfaces are often the most human-like, they have been predicted to incur the greatest risk of falling into the uncanny valley, the loss of empathy attributed to characters that appear eerily human. Previous studies compared interfaces on the left side of the uncanny valley, namely, those with low human likeness. To examine interfaces with higher human realism, a between-groups factorial experiment was conducted through the internet with 426 midwestern U.S. undergraduates. This experiment presented a hypothetical ethical dilemma followed by the advice of an authority figure. The authority was manipulated in three ways: depiction (digitally recorded or computer animated), motion quality (smooth or jerky), and advice (disclose or refrain from disclosing sensitive information). Of these, only the advice changed opinion about the ethical dilemma, even though the animated depiction was significantly eerier than the human depiction. These results indicate that compliance with an authority persists even when using an uncannily realistic computeranimated double.

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Sending an Avatar to Do a Human's Job: Compliance with Authority Persists Despite the Uncanny Valley

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“…As many of an object’s features are made to resemble those of a human being, vestigial non human features become salient (Figure 1). Mismatches among human and nonhuman features strike discords, and the overall effect is eerie (MacDorman, Green, Ho, & Koch, 2009; MacDorman & Ishiguro, 2006; Mitchell et al, 2011; Seyama & Nagayama, 2007; Tinwell, Grimshaw, & Williams, 2011). This dip in the observer’s affinity for the object is called the uncanny valley (Mori, 1970/2012).…”

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The uncanny valley does not interfere with level 1 visual perspective taking

MacDorman

Srinivas

Patel

2013

Computers in Human Behavior

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When a computer-animated human character looks eerily realistic, viewers report a loss of empathy; they have difficulty taking the character’s perspective. To explain this perspective-taking impairment, known as the uncanny valley, a novel theory is proposed: The more human or less eerie a character looks, the more it interferes with level 1 visual perspective taking when the character’s perspective differs from that of the human observer (e.g., because the character competitively activates shared circuits in the observer’s brain). The proposed theory is evaluated in three experiments involving a dot-counting task in which participants either assumed or ignored the perspective of characters varying in their human photorealism and eeriness. Although response times and error rates were lower when the number of dots faced by the observer and character were the same (congruent condition) than when they were different (incongruent condition), no consistent pattern emerged between the human photorealism or eeriness of the characters and participants’ response times and error rates. Thus, the proposed theory is unsupported for level 1 visual perspective taking. As the effects of the uncanny valley on empathy have not previously been investigated systematically, these results provide evidence to eliminate one possible explanation.

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“…12 ) The application of multimedia technology in situational teaching of foreign language can break the limit of space, time and information of traditional teaching, optimally extend learning mind of students, and it can reflect the transition speed of learning information of students rapidly and in time, improve the comprehensive quality of students effectively, on this account, subtract two formulas (11) (12), it comes to [10]:…”

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Application of Multimedia Technology in Situational Teaching of Foreign Language

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2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science

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By using digital information, such as graphic image and audio as well as vedio, the integration of situational teaching of foreign language and modern multimedia technology enriches the content of foreign language teaching, which provides a rich and colorful environment for English learner. It can stimulate emotional students' experience and enhance their willings of participating in interacting with classmates by reasonably creating a situation around content of courses in teaching. Based on cognition of teaching method of situational teaching theory, this paper constructs functions to analyze the advantages of multimedia technology in situational teaching of foreign language, thus deduces applied purpose and principle of multimedia technology in situational teaching of foreign language by using the mathematical model to construct thoughts. It provides theory basis and new way of teaching practice for situational teaching of foreign language.

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Does social desirability bias favor humans? Explicit–implicit evaluations of synthesized speech support a new HCI model of impression management

Cited by 53 publications

References 94 publications

Sending an Avatar to Do a Human's Job: Compliance with Authority Persists Despite the Uncanny Valley

Sending an Avatar to Do a Human's Job: Compliance with Authority Persists Despite the Uncanny Valley

The uncanny valley does not interfere with level 1 visual perspective taking

Application of Multimedia Technology in Situational Teaching of Foreign Language

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