• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Acceptability Study of Emotional Expressions of In-Vehicle Virtual Assistant
  • Contributor: Kim, Youngsang; Yoo, Hoonsik
  • Published: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2024
  • Published in: Interacting with Computers, 36 (2024) 3, Seite 188-197
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/iwc/iwad056
  • ISSN: 0953-5438; 1873-7951
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  • Description: Abstract We analyzed the differences in drivers’ preferences for emotional expressions from an in-vehicle virtual assistant based on data collected from 823 respondents in five countries categorized into three different cultural settings: collectivism (Korea, China and Brazil), individualism (USA) and a mixture of both (Russia). To quantify the degree of acceptance, we used a 5-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree) on four emotion types categorized based on Thayer’s two-dimensional emotion model. Analysis revealed that respondents in all five countries preferred emotion type 1 (pleased, happy, excited) and emotion type 4 (calm, peaceful, relaxed), that is, positive emotions under Thayer’s two-dimensional emotion model expressions, and they showed low acceptance for emotion type 2 (nervous, angry, annoying) and emotion type 3 (sad, bored, sleepy), negative emotional expressions. In a cross-cultural comparative analysis, Brazil and China ranked highest in both positive emotion types (1 and 4), and Korea ranked highest in negative emotion types.