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Inducing rapport-building behaviors in interaction with an embodied conversational agent

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IVA '18: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

Pages 345 - 346

https://doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267889

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How would humans would try to build rapport with an agent rather than with another human? To address this issue, we created a virtual-reality application, Gods of the Neon City, in which an agent might (or might not) betray its human partner. The results from 45 participants suggest that it is possible to build a VR adventure with agents in which a central character can be perceived as untrustworthy, and that participants' perceptions of an agent's trustworthiness can be affected by systematic messages from other agents. However, the study's data are insufficient to demonstrate that participants try to address perceived untrustworthiness by increasing the length of their utterances.

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Inducing rapport-building behaviors in interaction with an embodied conversational agent
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Virtual reality

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IVA '18: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

November 2018

381 pages

ISBN:9781450360135

DOI:10.1145/3267851

Conference Chairs:
Anton Bogdanovych
Western Sydney University
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Deborah Richards
Macquarie University
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Simeon Simoff
Western Sydney University
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Catherine Pelachaud
CNRS - ISIR, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
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Dirk Heylen
University of Twente
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Tomas Trescak
Western Sydney University

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