2. JODI FORLUZZI ♀
Information acquired: 2025
JODI FORLUZZI is an academic who published a paper in 2007 entitled How Interface Agents Affect Interaction between Humans and Computers. JODI FORLUZZI published this work as part of a team: Forluzzi, Jodi. Here is a description of this work: For many years, the HCI community has harbored a vision of interacting with intelligent, embodied computer agents. However, the reality of this vision remains elusive. From an interaction design perspective, little is known about how to specifically design an embodied agent to support the task it will perform and the social interactions that will result. This paper presents design research that explores the relationship between the visual features of embodied agents and the tasks they perform, and the social attributions that result. Our results show a clear link between agent task and agent form and reveals that people often prefer agents who conform to gender stereotypes associated with tasks. Based on the results of this work, we provide a set of emerging design considerations to help guide interaction designers in creating the visual form of embodied agents..