Kawaii Game Vocalics: How Audio and Visual Stimuli Influence Kawaii, Gender, and Age Perceptions of Game Characters
Open Access
- 24 September 2026
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
- p. 1-31
Abstract
1. “Kawaii” is the Japanese notion of “cute,” a positive adjective that not only describes perceivable features of an object but also expresses a person’s feelings (Nittono, 2022), such as the impr...Keywords
Funding Information
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists (KAKENHI WAKATE) grant (21K18005)
- JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research B (KAKENHI Kiban B) grant (24K02972)
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