@conference {906,
	title = {The effects of virtual agent humor and gaze behavior on human-virtual agent proxemics},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011},
	year = {2011},
	month = {09/2011},
	address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
	abstract = {We study whether a virtual agent that delivers humor through verbal behavior can affect an individual{\textquoteright}s proxemic behavior towards the agent. Participants interacted with a virtual agent through natural language and, in a separate task, performed an embodied interpersonal interaction task in a virtual environment. The study used minimum distance as the dependent measure. Humor generated by the virtual agent through a text chat did not have any significant effects on the proxemic task. This is likely due to the experimental constraint of only allowing participants to interact with a disembodied agent through a textual chat dialogue.},
	author = {Peter Khooshabeh and Sudeep Gandhe and Cade McCall and Jonathan Gratch and James Blascovich and David R. Traum}
}
