Title | The effects of virtual agent humor and gaze behavior on human-virtual agent proxemics |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Authors | Khooshabeh, P., S. Gandhe, C. McCall, J. Gratch, J. Blascovich, and D. R. Traum |
Conference Name | Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011 |
Date Published | 09/2011 |
Conference Location | Reykjavik, Iceland |
Abstract | We study whether a virtual agent that delivers humor through verbal behavior can affect an individual'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. |