What is it about?
The concept of "kawaii" from Japanese culture, representing cuteness, vulnerability, and charm, has become popular worldwide. Researchers have explored how kawaii design elements affect users' experiences with robots and virtual characters, including their appearance, behaviour, and sound. In this study, we investigated whether voices can be kawaii by examining the vocal qualities of voice assistants, called kawaii vocalics.
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Why is it important?
The researchers propose a model for kawaii vocalics and plan to study how vocal qualities affect people's perceptions, responses, and feelings.
Perspectives
You may find robot sounding voices cute- and it's not strange
Somang Nam
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This page is a summary of: Can Voice Assistants Sound Cute? Towards a Model of Kawaii Vocalics, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3585656.
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