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This study explored participants’ response to male versus female voices in drone campus tour guides. The sample comprised 60 undergraduate and graduate students, of which 50% were female, from a University in South Korea. A between-subjects experimental design was employed with each drone voice type (male and female) to examine the influence on perceived credibility, attitude, and the sense of presence. The results revealed that neither participants’ perception of credibility nor sense of presence was affected by voice type, but results demonstrated that female participants displayed a stronger positive attitude toward the male-voiced drone. In participants’ gender difference index, female participants felt a stronger perceived presence than did male participants. These findings suggest possible guidelines for designing social drone agents that use speech-enabled technology.
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Kong, HY. (2023). Gendered Voices Effect in Social Drones. In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023, Volume 3. FTC 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 815. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47457-6_12
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