Abstract
This paper reports on three studies into social presence cues which were carried out in the context of the NECA (Net-environment for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents) project and the EPOCH network. The first study concerns the generation of referring expressions. We adopted an existing algorithm for generating referring expressions such that it could run according to an egocentric and a neutral strategy. In an evaluation study, we found that the two strategies were correlated with the perceived friendliness of the speaker. In the second and the third study, we evaluated the gestures that were generated by the NECA system. In this paper, we briefly summarize the most salient results of these two studies. They concern the effect of gestures on perceived quality of speech and information retention.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | AISB’05: Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Virtual Social Agents |
| Place of Publication | Hatfield, United Kingdom |
| Publisher | AISB |
| Pages | 53-60 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1902956492 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Event | SSAISB 2005 Convention, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 12 - 15 April 2005 - Hatfield , United Kingdom Duration: 12 Apr 2005 → 15 Apr 2005 |
Conference
| Conference | SSAISB 2005 Convention, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 12 - 15 April 2005 |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Hatfield |
| Period | 12/04/05 → 15/04/05 |
Keywords
- embodied agents
- evaluation
- nlg
- dialogue
- gestures