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Effect of an Agent's Contingent Responses on Maintaining an Intentional Stance

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Yoshimasa Ohmoto,

Toyoaki NishidaAuthors Info & Claims

HAI '17: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction

Pages 277 - 285

https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3125770

Published: 27 October 2017 Publication History

Abstract

To establish social relationships between a human and an artificial agent, the agent has to induce and maintain the intentional stance on its human partner. In this study, we focus on contingency, which is the behavior that occurs synchronously with the last action, and the icebreaker, which is a facilitation exercise that helps start an interaction. The aim of this study is to investigate whether an agent that implements contingent responses is capable of inducing and maintaining an intentional stance. We conducted an experiment using the contingent agent and a ``subgoal-oriented agent' as a control group. As a result, we conclude that the contingent responses are capable of maintaining the intentional stance during the main task from the behavior analysis. On the other hand, we suggested that only the participants who actively joined the icebreaker with the contingent agent be induced into taking an intentional stance. From these results, we conclude that the contingent responses could maintain the intentional stance but not induce it.

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Ohmoto YKumano SNishida TFu WPan SBrdiczka OChau PCalvary G(2019)Induction of an active attitude by short speech reaction time toward interaction for decision-making with multiple agentsProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces10.1145/3301275.3302330(426-431)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3301275.3302330
Ohmoto YKarasaki JNishida TBogdanovych ARichards DSimoff SPelachaud CHeylen DTrescak T(2018)Inducing and maintaining the intentional stance by showing interactions between multiple agentsProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents10.1145/3267851.3267886(203-210)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3267851.3267886

Index Terms

Effect of an Agent's Contingent Responses on Maintaining an Intentional Stance
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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HAI '17: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction

October 2017

550 pages

ISBN:9781450351133

DOI:10.1145/3125739

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Bielefeld University, Germany
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Osaka University, Japan
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Meiji University, Japan
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University of Lincoln, UK
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Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

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Ohmoto YKino T(2022)Improvement of Proactive Attitude by Alternating Enhancement of a Sense of Acceptance and Control2022 IEEE International Conference on Agents (ICA)10.1109/ICA55837.2022.00015(48-53)Online publication date: Nov-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICA55837.2022.00015
Ohmoto YKumano SNishida TFu WPan SBrdiczka OChau PCalvary G(2019)Induction of an active attitude by short speech reaction time toward interaction for decision-making with multiple agentsProceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces10.1145/3301275.3302330(426-431)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3301275.3302330
Ohmoto YKarasaki JNishida TBogdanovych ARichards DSimoff SPelachaud CHeylen DTrescak T(2018)Inducing and maintaining the intentional stance by showing interactions between multiple agentsProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents10.1145/3267851.3267886(203-210)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3267851.3267886

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