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Auflistung nach Schlagwort "Anthropomorphism"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Cute or Not: Validating Lorenz's Kindchenschema With Text-To-Image Generation
    (Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024, 2024) Nischwitz, Lena Marcella; Haupt, Josef; Weigelt, Aurora-Zoe; Chuang, Lewis L
    This study validates Lorenz’s Kindchenschema features by using a commercial text-to-image generator (Midjourney v.5.2) to generate stimulus material that depicted either animals or objects with or without the text prompts for “cute” and “anthropomorphic”. In an online study human participants evaluated the presence of Kindchenschema features in said images. Our results show their increased presence and perception in AI-generated images created with the prompt “cute” compared to those explicitly excluding it, as well as the systematically prioritisation of features such as “large, deep-set eye” and “rounded body shapes” in cute images. Whereas “round, protruding cheeks”, traditionally considered essential by Lorenz, ranks lower. Furthermore, the anthropomorphisation of subjects reduces the likelihood of Kindchenschema features, highlighting constraints in AI-generated stimuli. This research demonstrates the potential of AI-tools to objectively quantify and test theoretical concepts as represented in popular culture.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Designing Anthropomorphic Enterprise Conversational Agents
    (Business & Information Systems Engineering: Vol. 62, No. 3, 2020) Diederich, Stephan; Brendel, Alfred Benedikt; Kolbe, Lutz M.
    The increasing capabilities of conversational agents (CAs) offer manifold opportunities to assist users in a variety of tasks. In an organizational context, particularly their potential to simulate a human-like interaction via natural language currently attracts attention both at the customer interface as well as for internal purposes, often in the form of chatbots. Emerging experimental studies on CAs look into the impact of anthropomorphic design elements, so-called social cues, on user perception. However, while these studies provide valuable prescriptive knowledge of selected social cues, they neglect the potential detrimental influence of the limited responsiveness of present-day conversational agents. In practice, many CAs fail to continuously provide meaningful responses in a conversation due to the open nature of natural language interaction, which negatively influences user perception and often led to CAs being discontinued in the past. Thus, designing a CA that provides a human-like interaction experience while minimizing the risks associated with limited conversational capabilities represents a substantial design problem. This study addresses the aforementioned problem by proposing and evaluating a design for a CA that offers a human-like interaction experience while mitigating negative effects due to limited responsiveness. Through the presentation of the artifact and the synthesis of prescriptive knowledge in the form of a nascent design theory for anthropomorphic enterprise CAs, this research adds to the growing knowledge base for designing human-like assistants and supports practitioners seeking to introduce them into their organizations.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    The effect of anthropomorphic design on the perceived trustworthiness of AI-based assistance systems
    (Mensch und Computer 2024 - Workshopband, 2024) Reuter, Muriel
    Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an omnipresent part of everyday life and increasingly also of the world of work. The design of human-AI interaction plays a crucial role in this context. This project aims to analyze the effect of anthropomorphic design elements on perceived trustworthiness. Positive and negative consequences are to be investigated in a mixed-methods approach in realistic laboratory settings. The aim is to develop guidelines for the design of anthropomorphic AI systems in a work context.