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Effect on the Mental Stance of an Agent's Encouraging Behavior in a Virtual Exercise Game

Authors:
Yoshimasa Ohmoto
Takashi Suyama
Toyoaki Nishida

Keywords: Multi-modal interaction; human-agent interaction; intentional stance.

Abstract:
Most of people think an agent is very diffrent from human. The mental stance provides a critical barrier for an agent to cross before it can be accepted as a social partner. In this study, we focused on the situation in which an agent encouraged performing a task. We experimentally investigated how to influence the mental stance of human participants during task performance by the encouraging behavior of the agent. We implemented two agents: an "encouraging agent" that provided motivational behavior to the participants and a "time-report agent" that reported the passage of time to the end of the game. We conducted an experiment to evaluate whether the behavior model estimation had the potential to induce and maintain the intentional stance in a variety of situations. As a result, the agent could motivate the participants and induce the participants' affective assiduities for the agent as that when they interact with humans.

Pages: 10 to 15

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: March 20, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-462-6

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 20, 2016 to March 24, 2016