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The Effects of Extended Estimation on Affective Attitudes in an Interactional Series of Tasks

Authors:
Yoshimasa Ohmoto
Soshi Horii
Toyoaki Nishida

Keywords: Multi-modal interaction; human-agent interaction; affective attitudes.

Abstract:
When engaged in long-term human-human interactions, we mutually estimate and construct a model of behavior. To achieve long-term, sustained human-agent interaction, the agent induces an active attitude within the human to demonstrate and share their common ground. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the agent's estimation of a human's preferences on the human's affective impressions to induce an active attitude within a series of interactions. We conducted an experiment to evaluate the effect of the proposed method using two agents. The results showed that the proposed method could reduce the number of interactions in the decision-making process and improved some of the affective impressions related to the agent's character. In addition, we found that the rate of participants' acceptance of the proposals by the agent, which was implemented our proposed method, was significantly low. This was possible because the agent provided a consistent estimation of emphasizing points for each participant. The participants' attitude indicates that they regarded the agent as being communicative.

Pages: 62 to 67

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-440-4

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015