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What would you Ask a conversational Agent? Observations of Human-Agent Dialogues in a Museum Setting

Year: 2008

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Embodied Conversational Agents have typically been constructed for use in limited domain applications, and tested in very specialized environments.Only in recent years have there been more cases of moving agents into wider public applications (e.g.Bell et al., 2003;Kopp et al., 2005).Yet little analysis has been done to determine the differing needs, expectations, and behavior of human users in these environments.With an increasing trend for virtual characters to 'go public', we need to expand our understanding of what this entails for the design and capabilities of our characters.This paper explores these issues through an analysis of a corpus that has been collected since December 2006, from interactions with the virtual character Sgt Blackwell at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York.The analysis includes 82 hierarchical categories of user utterances, as well as specific observations on user preferences and behaviors drawn from interactions with Blackwell.

Source: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)

DOI: 10.63317/3bs9odrfj3mf

Authors: Susan Robinson, David Traum, Midhun Ittycheriah, Joe Henderer

Institution: University of Southern California

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: Research, Development and Engineering Command

OpenAlex ID: W1488545818