Individual characteristics have a strong impact on people’s decision making and behaviors in virtual environments, including interacting with agents, avatars, or animated objects. Prior IS research individual has mostly focused constructs such as the Big Five personality traits, emotional intelligence, social sensitivity to categorize individuals high level. However, we believe how receive, pro...

Existing methodologies to describe anthropomorphism in human-robot interaction often rely either on specific one-time responses robot behavior, such as keeping the robot's secret, or post hoc measures, questionnaires. Currently, there is no method dynamics of people's behavior over course an and response behavior. In this paper, I propose a that allows researcher trace anthropomorphizing non-an...

Drawing on social exchange and anthropomorphism theory, this research examines the role of virtual conversational assistants (VCA) as frontline employees. Specifically, we investigate effects AI-derived features, such anthropomorphism, in building Human-Machine relationships. a qualitative interpretivist approach, 31 semi-structured interviews were conducted with global users Siri, Alexa Google...

This article offers a reconstruction and analysis of the anthropomorphite beliefs Augustine’s North African contemporaries through close reading writings comparison with other cases anthropomorphism within early Christianity. I argue that faith in church was more sophisticated than scholars have previously recognized. My argument is twofold. First, show that, church, belief God has human bodily...

By investigating the representations of the human throughout a history of the robots, we analyze robotic performances from a theatrical audience ‘pragmatic’ point of view. Hence, this interpretation of robots as performers, or staged robots, involves an act of suspension of disbelief as a first and constitutive condition of theatrical reality. As an early analysis of robotic performances and ro...

This paper summarized the factors that influence consumers' trust in AI chatbots and divided it into chatbot-related (expertise, anthropomorphism, responsiveness, ease of use), company-related (perceived risk, brand trust, human support), consumer-related (privacy concerns). research attempts to explore mechanism human-AI formation answer question how promote chatbots. The results found anthrop...

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