Affiliation:
1. Northwestern University, Center for Technology and Social Behavior
Abstract
What is the hallmark of success in human–agent interaction? In animation and robotics, many have concentrated on the looks of the agent — whether the appearance is realistic or lifelike. We present an alternative benchmark that lies in the dyad and not the agent alone: Does the agent’s behavior evoke intersubjectivity from the user? That is, in both conscious and unconscious communication, do users react to behaviorally realistic agents in the same way they react to other humans? Do users appear to attribute similar thoughts and actions? We discuss why we distinguish between appearance and behavior, why we use the benchmark of intersubjectivity, our methodology for applying this benchmark to embodied conversational agents (ECAs), and why we believe this benchmark should be applied to human–robot interaction.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Human-Computer Interaction,Linguistics and Language,Animal Science and Zoology,Language and Linguistics,Communication
Cited by
23 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Alone or Mixed? The Effect of Digital Human Narrative Scenarios on Chinese Consumer Eco-Product Purchase Intention;Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research;2024-07-09
2. Gesture and Intersubjectivity;The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies;2024-04-18
3. Embodied Agents to Scaffold Data Science Education;Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium;2022
4. Expressing Personality Through Non-verbal Behaviour in Real-Time Interaction;Frontiers in Psychology;2021-11-26
5. How to Create a Pedagogic Conversational Agent for Teaching Computer Science;Advanced Online Education and Training Technologies;2019