2 papers
cs.HC2026
Operationalizing Perceptions of Agent Gender: Foundations and Guidelines
Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds, Ilaria Torre +3
The "gender" of intelligent agents, virtual characters, social robots, and other agentic machines has emerged as a fundamental topic in studies of people's interactions with comput…
cs.HC2025
Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
Takao Fujii, Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds +1
Conversational agents that mimic people have raised questions about the ethics of anthropomorphizing machines with human social identity cues. Critics have also questioned assumpti…