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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"computers are social actors"”.
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Non-judgmental AI: investigating the potential of AI agents to alleviate anxiety and reduce fear of judgment under social evaluative threat
… agents by customers. This research focuses on social evaluative threat, that is, social contexts that involve the risk of negative judgment, which can be explained by the experience of anxiety and fear of judgment. We hypothesize that in such high-emotional-stakes contexts, AI agents may be …
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It's not easy trying to be one of the guys: The effect of avatar attractiveness, avatar gender, and purported user gender on the success of help-seeking requests in an online game
… interactions with others in online environments are often guided by the same rules and stereotypes we apply in our everyday lives. However, fewer studies have used virtual worlds as an experimental setting for the systematic examination of how avatar appearance and offline identity affect the …
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
The Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm was proposed more than two decades ago to understand humans’ interaction with computer technologies. Today, as emerging media technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to …
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Can (S)He Close the Deal? The influence of Purchase Intention Through Gender-Assigned Artificial Intelligence
… Taking the theoretical framework of the Computer Are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm, I utilized a 2 x 3 experiment to measure if the perceived sex of an artificial intelligence impacts consumers' purchase intention, trust, and sense of agency. Participants interacted with either a male-gendered or …
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Evaluating the effect of cognitive-behaviourally informed artificial intelligence coaching on the development of leader character: A mixed-methods randomised controlled study
… delivery, while also fostering deeper awareness of leader character. Al coaching therefore holds considerable potential to democratise leader character development. Despite rapid advancements in Al coaching, its application remains novel, and no research to date has examined the potential …