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M. Bruijnes
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Corrigendum
Mandarin Chinese translation of the Artificial-Social-Agent questionnaire instrument for evaluating human-agent interaction (Frontiers in Computer Science, (2023), 5, (1149305), 10.3389/fcomp.2023.1149305)
In the published article, there was an error in Table 5. For each second construct/dimension, the means are swapped between Chinese and English data, which is caused by an error in the underlying R script. Consequently, the plus and minus signs for the delta and CI values are als
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Reducing social diabetes distress with a conversational agent support system
A three-week technology feasibility evaluation
Background: People with diabetes mellitus not only have to deal with physical health problems, but also with the psycho-social challenges their chronic disease brings. Currently, technological tools that support the psycho-social context of a patient have received little attentio
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The multimodal EchoBorg
Not as smart as it looks
In this paper we present a Multimodal Echoborg interface to explore the effect of different embodiments of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) in an interaction. We compared an interaction where the ECA was embodied as a virtual human (VH) with one where it was embodied as an
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Changing a specific health behaviour can be highly com- plex and is often influenced by many personal, social, and environmental factors. Therefore, interventions that aim at behaviour change cannot be one-size-fits-all solutions, and no behaviour change technique is effective fo
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People seem to hold the human driver to be primarily responsible when their partially automated vehicle crashes, yet is this reasonable? While the driver is often required to immediately take over from the automation when it fails, placing such high expectations on the driver to
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The artificial-social-agent questionnaire
Establishing the long and short questionnaire versions
We present the ASA Questionnaire, an instrument for evaluating human interaction with an artificial social agent (ASA), resulting from multi-year efforts involving more than 100 Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) researchers worldwide. It has 19 measurement constructs constituted by
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In this paper, we report on the multi-year Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) community effort, involving more than 90 researchers worldwide, researching the IVA community interests and practice in evaluating human interaction with an artificial social agent (ASA). The joint effort
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Agents United
An Open Platform for Multi-Agent Conversational Systems
The development of applications with intelligent virtual agents (IVA) often comes with integration of multiple complex components. In this article we present the Agents United Platform: an open source platform that researchers and developers can use as a starting point to setup t
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Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together", and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology on commensality by presenting an experiment in which a toy robot
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Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together" and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. In this paper, we discuss how HCI and technology in general can be exploited to replicate the benefits of commensality for people who ch
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The 19 Unifying Questionnaire Constructs of Artificial Social Agents
An IVA Community Analysis
In this paper, we report on the multi-year Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) community effort, involving more than 80 researchers worldwide, researching the IVA community interests and practises in evaluating human interaction with an artificial social agent (ASA). The effort is d
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What are we measuring anyway?
-A literature survey of questionnaires used in studies reported in the intelligent virtual agent conferences
Research into artificial social agents aims at constructing these agents and at establishing an empirically grounded understanding of them, their interaction with humans, and howthey can ultimately deliver certain outcomes in areas such as health, entertainment, and education. Ke
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Research into artificial social agents aims at constructing these agents and at establishing an empirically grounded understanding of them, their interaction with humans, and how they can ultimately deliver certain outcomes in areas such as health, entertainment, and education. K
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