How (not) to increase older adults' tendency to anthropomorphise in serious games.

Among elderly, the use of serious games steadily increases. Research shows that anthropomorphising digital agents (i.e., ascribing human characteristics to them) has positive short-term consequences on interactions with digital agents. However, whether these effects can also be observed over a long-...

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Main Authors: Barbara C N Müller, Shengnan Chen, Sari R R Nijssen, Simone Kühn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6039013?pdf=render