Brains or Beauty
- 4 January 2017
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
- Vol. 17 (1), 1-20
- https://doi.org/10.1145/2998572
Abstract
Software-based agents are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and automated. However, current technology and algorithms are still fallible, which considerably affects users’ trust and interaction with such agents. In this article, we investigate two factors that can engender user trust in agents: reliability and attractiveness of agents. We show that agent reliability is not more important than agent attractiveness. Subjective user ratings of agent trust and perceived accuracy suggest that attractiveness may be even more important than reliability.Keywords
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