Ilaria Torre

schoolChalmers University of Technologybar_chart#1960 Global Rank

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#1960

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Operationalizing Perceptions of Agent Gender: Foundations and Guidelines

The “gender” of intelligent agents, virtual characters, social robots, and other agentic machines has emerged as a fundamental topic in studies of people's interactions with computers. Perceptions of agent gender can help explain user attitudes and behaviours—from preferences to toxicity to stereotyping—across a varie…

CHI '26CorrespondingAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +2

Queer, Nonbinary, or Ambiguous? Rethinking Voice Labels through Queer Theory in HCI

This paper explores how feminist and queer theories can inform voice design in technology, particularly in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). It argues that biological sex and gender are socially constructed and performative, and that voice is a site where identity is both enacted and interpreted. Building on this fram…

CUI '25CorrespondingVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

Hearing Ambiguity: Exploring Beyond-Gender Impressions of Artificial Ambiguous Voices

Voice perception plays a fundamental role in all types of interactions, from human-to-human communication to human-technology interaction. When it comes to technology, we sometimes have the option to choose the type of voice we want to hear. But why is the default (almost) always a feminine or masculine voice? In this…

CHI '25CorrespondingVoice User Interface (VUI) Design +2

Breaking the Binary: A Systematic Review of Gender-Ambiguous Voices in Human-Computer Interaction

Voice interfaces come in many forms in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), such as voice assistants and robots. These are often gendered, i.e. they sound masculine or feminine. Recently, there has been a surge in creating gender-ambiguous voices, aiming to make voice interfaces more inclusive and less prone to stereotyp…

CUI '243rd AuthorAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +1

Do Your Expectations Match? A Mixed-Methods Study on the Association Between a Robot's Voice and Appearance

Both physical appearance and voice can elicit mental images of what someone and/or something should sound and look like. This is particularly relevant for human-robot interaction design and research since any voice can be added to a robot. Therefore, it is important to give robots voices that match users' expectations…

HRI '244th AuthorPrivacy by Design & User Control +2

The Human Behind the Robot: Rethinking the Low Social Status of Service Robots

Robots in our society are commonly perceived as subordinate servants with a lower social status than humans. This often leads to humans prioritizing themselves during conflict situations. This becomes problematic when robots start to directly represent humans as proxies if people do not think of the human operator beh…

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