I was watching Dr. Ishiguro’s lecture at the Exploratory Conference 2021 and heard him say something like, “If you make a robot look childlike, it will respond to humans in a kinder way,” and I thought, “Well, then the chatbot icon should also be childlike.
Since it is a chatbot that repeatedly asks questions, it is detrimental to the user’s mental health if it is viewed as “the interviewer is asking a lot of questions. It is better to think of it as “a toddler who doesn’t know better is asking questions.
I drew it in Adobe XD as a draft, but I’m starting to think it’s the right one. It’s cute.
When I moved the eyes outward and down a notch from the first drawing, it suddenly looked more infantile.
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