Fostering social agency in multimedia learning: Examining the impact of an animated agent’s voice ☆

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An Evolutionary Upgrade of Cognitive Load Theory: Using the Human Motor System and Collaboration to Support the Learning of Complex Cognitive Tasks (2012, background): “…(the personalization principle: e.g., Mayer et al. 2004; Moreno and Mayer 2004), or when the words in a multimedia message are spoken in a standard accented human voice rather than in a machine voice or foreign-accented human voice (voice principle, e.g., Atkinson et al. 2005; Mayer et al. 2003).”
The Robot Who Tried Too Hard: Social Behaviour of a Robot Tutor Can Negatively Affect Child Learning (2015, methodology): “This hypothesis is based on observations of the positive effects of social behaviour in other HRI studies such as [13] and [18], and psychology studies such as [1] and [15].”
Do pedagogical agents make a difference to student motivation and learning (2011, background): “Two studies compared a human to a computer-generated voice (Atkinson et al., 2005, experiments 1 and 2) and consistently found an advantage of the human voice in retention, near and far transfer (0.63 d 0.84).”