Human Minds in Digital Technologie - Processes and Effects of (De-)Anthropomorphism (B01)

• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology ; Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416228727

The key objectives of this research project are to evaluate, optimize, and validate different anthropomorphism mind-attribution features in EDTs. These features will then be tested in various multimedia learning scenarios in order to gain insights into the mediating processes of anthropomorphism and de-anthropomorphism. The alleged emotional capability and the morphology of EDTs, the affective state and prior knowledge of learners, as well as the instructional complexity and the element interactivity of learning materials will be examined as key moderating factors of the effects of de-anthropomorphism on learning.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1410: Hybrid Societies: Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Chemnitz
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Peter Ohler; Professor Dr. Günter Daniel Rey