如果虚拟代理有气味会怎样？用户在与虚拟代理相遇时对其个性和吸引力的判断
What if Virtual Agents Had Scents? Users' Judgments of Virtual Agent Personality and Appeals in Encounters
AI总结：
本研究探讨了虚拟代理的嗅觉线索、情绪表达和性别如何影响用户感知，发现积极情绪提升印象，但不悦气味会压制其他线索产生负面影响，强调了VR设计中嗅觉刺激选择的重要性。
摘要：
将多感官线索融入虚拟现实（VR）中，可以显著增强用户体验，映射出我们在现实世界中遇到的多感官交互。嗅觉在与他人交往时，在塑造印象方面发挥着至关重要的作用。本研究探讨了虚拟代理的非言语线索——特别是嗅觉线索、情绪表达和性别——如何影响用户在与虚拟代理相遇时的感知。我们的研究结果表明，在无气味、木质和花香条件下，参与者主要依赖视觉可观察的线索来形成对虚拟代理的印象。通过面部表情和手势传达的积极情绪表达促成了更有利的印象，这种效应对女性代理比对男性代理更强。然而，在令人不悦的气味条件下，参与者持续形成负面印象，这压制了情绪表达和性别的影响，表明厌恶性的嗅觉刺激会对用户感知产生不利影响。我们的结果强调了在设计沉浸式和吸引人的VR交互时，仔细选择嗅觉刺激的重要性。最后，我们展示了研究结果，并概述了将嗅觉线索有效整合到虚拟代理中的未来研究方向。
英文摘要：
Incorporating multi-sensory cues into Virtual Reality (VR) can significantly enhance user experiences, mirroring the multi-sensory interactions we encounter in the real-world. Olfaction plays a crucial role in shaping impressions when engaging with others. This study examines how non-verbal cues from virtual agents-specifically olfactory cues, emotional expressions, and gender-influence user perceptions during encounters with virtual agents. Our findings indicate that in unscented, woodsy, and floral scent conditions, participants primarily relied on visually observable cues to form their impressions of virtual agents. Positive emotional expressions, conveyed through facial expressions and gestures, contributed to more favorable impressions, with this effect being stronger for the female agent than the male agent. However, in the unpleasant scent condition, participants consistently formed negative impressions, which overpowered the influence of emotional expressions and gender, suggesting that aversive olfactory stimuli can detrimentally impact user perceptions. Our results emphasize the importance of carefully selecting olfactory stimuli when designing immersive and engaging VR interactions. Finally, we present our findings and outline future research directions for effectively integrating olfactory cues into virtual agents.
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