`Baymax' or `RoboCop'? Exploring Different Feminine Avatar Personalities for Shared Automated Vehicles
dc.contributor.author | Schuß, Martina | |
dc.contributor.author | Röhr, Tatjana | |
dc.contributor.author | Riener, Andreas | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-08T15:12:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-10-08T15:12:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.description.abstract | Shared automated vehicles (SAVs) will offer a lot of benefits, from improving the overall mobility to environmental benefits. However, perceived security in SAVs is a major concern and may influence their acceptance and adoption negatively. To address this, we propose a digital companion (DC) concept embodied as an avatar inside the vehicle to accompany passengers in substitution of a human driver. In a co-creation workshop with participants (N = 6) we collected ideas about the appearance and personality of such DCs and derived two contrasting concepts (‘Baymax’ and ‘RoboCop’). Inspired by a design space from the gaming context, we implemented the two DCs and evaluated them in a VR study (N = 23) experiencing two scenarios in SAVs. The results show that a DC improves passengers’ perceived security. Generally, the ‘Baymax’ companion was preferred in both scenarios but no correlation between scenario and preferred personality type could be determined. | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1145/3670653.3670682 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/44835 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.pubPlace | New York, NY, USA | |
dc.publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2024 | |
dc.subject | Shared automated vehicles | |
dc.subject | digital companions | |
dc.subject | gender. | |
dc.subject | participatory design | |
dc.subject | security | |
dc.title | `Baymax' or `RoboCop'? Exploring Different Feminine Avatar Personalities for Shared Automated Vehicles | en |
dc.type | Text/Conference Paper | |
gi.citation.startPage | 256–268 | |
gi.conference.location | Karlsruhe, Germany |