{"pk":25917,"title":"How are interaction between human and an autonomous agent affected by\nembodiments and voice?: Investigation with age groups comparison.","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Although many information system are employing autonomous agents for the purpose of user-friendly interface,\ncognitive mechanisms of their effects are not clear yet. In this study, we compared three types of UI, an embodied agent\nsystem equipped with a direct anthropomorphization robot, an only voice agent, and without agent system condition, of a\nmicrowave oven. Thirty-six older (65 years or above) and 36 younger adults (undergraduate students) participated in the\nusability testing experiment with one of the three agent conditions. Analysis of interaction between a participant and the oven,\nthrough participants’ utterance and the personal-space data, showed large differences between two age groups; younger adults\nentertained the interaction both the voice and the embodiment agent conditions, while older adults evaluated higher only with\nthe embodiment agent condition. Differences in mental models of older- and younger adults, and reasons of those aging effects\nwill be discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24g8t9nc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Etsuko","middle_name":"T","last_name":"Harada","name_suffix":"","institution":"Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba","department":""},{"first_name":"Riko","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hasegawa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universtity of Tsukuba","department":""},{"first_name":"Wataru","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kayano","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universtity of Tsukuba","department":""},{"first_name":"Hirotaka","middle_name":"","last_name":"Osawa","name_suffix":"","institution":"Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, Universtity of Tsukuba","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25917/galley/15541/download/"}]}