The Perception of Gender in Animated Walkers: A Study on Gender Attribution

Go here: https://www.biomotionlab.ca/html5-bml-walker/If you have a buddy, get them to adjust the gender slider without you seeing. Then make a rating of how gendered you think the walker looks from -5 (very masculine) to 5 (very feminine). Do this a few times to get a feel for how difficult or easy you find it. Now do another one of the attributes listed. (Only change one attribute at a time) What do you notice about your perception of the walkers? How do your ratings compare to the actual slider position? What about the second attribute you tested? Think back to the ROC graph from Assignment 2: using the concept of d-prime, how do the two attributes compare to each other? i.e. is one more discriminable