Annika Silvervarg

TL;DR: Results suggest that people’s intentional stance towards the robot was in this case very similar to their stance toward the human, as well as systematic differences in judgments concerning the plausibility of goals and dispositions as explanations of human vs. humanoid behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the historical roots of pedagogical agents in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and reveal central developments of creating an agent that is both knowledgeable and fosters a social relationship with the learner.

TL;DR: Trends indicate that students who played the game with the off-task interaction had a more positive experience of the game, and that they also learnt more, as reflected in the learning outcomes of their TAs.

TL;DR: The results suggest that social presence of an artificial agent is important for interaction with people, and that the extent to which it is perceived as socially present might be unaffected by whether it is physically or virtually present.

TL;DR: The results suggest that androgyny may be a way to keep both genders represented, which is especially important in pedagogical settings, simultaneously lowering the abusive behavior and perhaps most important, loosen the connection between gender and abuse.