Social fidelity in virtual agents: Impacts on presence and learning

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Highlights:

• We suggest that Social Fidelity has two divisions: Functional and Physical.

• Social Fidelity may impact teaching effectiveness of pedagogical agents in non-social domains.

• Tradeoffs exist when implementing some forms of Social Fidelity in pedagogical agents.

• Personalized language, politeness, personality, and gestures in pedagogical agents have had positive learning impacts.

摘要

•We suggest that Social Fidelity has two divisions: Functional and Physical.•Social Fidelity may impact teaching effectiveness of pedagogical agents in non-social domains.•Tradeoffs exist when implementing some forms of Social Fidelity in pedagogical agents.•Personalized language, politeness, personality, and gestures in pedagogical agents have had positive learning impacts.

论文关键词:Social fidelity,Virtual environments,Virtual characters,Learning

论文评审过程:Received 3 July 2019, Revised 28 August 2020, Accepted 9 September 2020, Available online 10 September 2020, Version of Record 29 September 2020.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106562