Investigating the Perspective of Non-Native Speakers on Foreigner-Directed Speech using Virtual Agents: The Role of Racial Ingroup Affiliation and Language Proficiency on Perception and Comprehension

Ohenewa Bediako Akuffo (Socially Interactive Agents, University of Würzburg), Birgit Lugrin (Socially Interactive Agents, University of Würzburg)

Abstract

Figure 1: The experimental setup: Experimenter controlling the Wizard of Oz interface (left), the Unity game view showing the Black female IVA in the scene (centre), and the four virtual agents used in the study (right).