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Effect of Agent Embodiment on the Elder User Enjoyment of a Game

Authors:
Jérémy Wrobel
Ya Huei Wu
Hélène Kerhervé
Laila Kamali
Anne Sophie Rigaud
Céline Jost
Brigitte Le Pévédic
Dominique Duhaut

Keywords: Embodied agent; human-robot interaction; user enjoyment.

Abstract:
This paper presents a study that compared the elder user enjoyment of a game of trivia in three conditions: participants playing the game with a laptop PC vs. a robot vs. a virtual agent. Statistical analysis did not show any significant difference of the three devices on user enjoyment while qualitative analysis revealed a preference for the laptop PC condition, followed by the robot and the virtual agent. The elderly participants were concentrated on the task performance rather on the interaction with systems. They preferred laptop PC condition mainly because there were less interfaces distracting them from performing the task proposed by the game. Further, the robot was preferred to a virtual agent because of its physical presence. Some issues of the experiment design are raised and directions for future research are suggested to gain more insight into the effects of agent embodiment on human-agent interaction.

Pages: 162 to 167

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-250-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013