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Record W3094447523 · doi:10.1145/3383652.3423876

Gender Stereotypes in Virtual Agents

2020· article· en· W3094447523 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Games and Media
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyProcess (computing)Point (geometry)Computer scienceGender psychologySocial psychologyHuman–computer interactionCognitive psychologyGender identity

Abstract

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Visual, behavioral and verbal cues for gender are often used in designing virtual agents to take advantage of their stereotypical effects on the users. However, recent studies point towards a more gender-balanced view of stereotypical traits and roles in our society. This paper is intended as an effort towards a progressive and inclusive approach for gender representations in virtual agents. Our contributions are two-fold. First, in an iterative design process, we created representative male, female and androgynous agents with few differences in their visual attributes. Second, we used these agents to evaluate the stereotypical assumptions of gendered traits and roles in virtual agents. Our results showed that, indeed, gender stereotypes are not as effective as previously assumed, and androgynous agents could represent a middle-ground between gendered stereotypes. We present our findings in the hope to foster discussions in virtual agent research and the frequent stereotypical use of gender representations.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.949
Threshold uncertainty score0.918

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.076
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations56
Published2020
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