How Our Personality Shapes Our Interactions with Virtual Characters - Implications for Research and Development

Pütten, Astrid M. von der; Krämer, Nicole C.; Gratch, Jonathan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_23

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“…A follow up big 5 personality test [23,24] shows that these two subjects are less extroverted as their test scores are in percentile 24% and 8% in a data groups with 711 users examined in [25]. This might suggest that whether people prefer mimicry is related to individual personality which supports von der Pütten et al's findings [26]: participants' personality traits influence their subjective feeling and evaluation of virtual characters.…”

Section: Experiments 1: Preference For Self-similar Motionmentioning

confidence: 52%

An Examination of Whether People Prefer Agents Whose Gestures Mimic Their Own

Luo

Ng-Thow-Hing

Neff

2013

Intelligent Virtual Agents

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Abstract. Do people prefer gestures that are similar to their own? There is evidence that in conversation, people will tend to adopt the postures, gestures and mannerisms of their interaction partners [1]. This mirroring, sometimes called the "chameleon effect", is associated with affiliation, rapport and liking. It may be that a useful way to build rapport in human-agent/robot interaction is to have the agent/robot perform gestures similar to the human. As a step towards that, this study explores if people prefer gestures similar to their own over gestures similar to those of other people. Participants were asked to evaluate a series of agent motions, some of which mimic their own gestures, and rate their preference. A second study first showed participants videos of their own gesturing to see if self-awareness would impact their preference. Different scenarios for soliciting gesture behavior were also explored. Evidence suggests people do have some preference for motions similar to their own, but self-awareness has no effect.

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Section: Experiments 1: Preference For Self-similar Motionmentioning

confidence: 52%

An Examination of Whether People Prefer Agents Whose Gestures Mimic Their Own

Luo

Ng-Thow-Hing

Neff

2013

Intelligent Virtual Agents

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“…For visual nonverbal displays we studied the literature on displays of attitude in initial human-human interactions (interactions where the interaction partners meet for the first time). Then, given the fact that previous research has shown how personality traits of extraversion and agreableness are important predictors of HAI [28], we also take into account findings on nonverbal cues which are important for predicting personality traits.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In [28], two conditions (low and high behaviour realism) of an agent designed to build rapport (the Rapport agent) were manipulated in interaction with humans. Further, human personality traits were correlated with persistent behavioral patterns, such as shyness or fear of interpersonal encounters.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, we believe that fusion of both visual and acoustic cues could be significant for predicting perceived measures of HAI. Our study is similar to the study with the Rapport agent [28], but with one major difference: rather than only observing the influence of personality traits on HAI experience we focus on the multi-modal analysis of perceived experience using both visual and vocal nonverbal behavior cues as well as the personality traits.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Do You Like Your Virtual Agent?: Human-Agent Interaction Experience through Nonverbal Features and Personality Traits

Cerekovic

Aran

Gática-Pérez

2014

Human Behavior Understanding

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Abstract. Recent studies suggest that human interaction experience with virtual agents can be, to a very large degree, described by people's personality traits. Moreover, the nonverbal behavior of a person has been known to indicate several social constructs in different settings. In this study, we analyze human-agent interaction from the perspective of the personality of the human and the nonverbal behaviors he/she displays during the interaction. Based on existing work in psychology, we designed and recorded an experiment on human-agent interactions, in which a human communicates with two different virtual agents. Human-agent interactions are described with three self-reported measures: quality, rapport and likeness of the agent. We investigate the use of self-reported personality traits and extracted audio-visual nonverbal features as descriptors of these measures. Our results on a correlation analysis show significant correlations between the interaction measures and several of the personality traits and nonverbal features, which are supported by both psychology and human-agent interaction literature. We further use traits and nonverbal cues as features to build regression models for predicting measures of interaction experience. Our results show that the best results are obtained when nonverbal cues and personality traits are used together.

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“…Von der Pütten et al (2010) show that differences in gesture rate and gesture performance parameters significantly change the perception of extraversion.…”

Section: Virtual Agents and Personalitymentioning

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Response selection and turn-taking for a sensitive artificial listening agent

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Vier jaar. Soms lijkt het een eeuwigheid, soms vliegt het voorbij, en dit heeft vooral te maken met waar je mee bezig bent (is die deadline nu alweer?). Gelukkig mocht ik werken aan een geweldig project in een geweldige vakgroep, waardoor de tijd (helaas) veel te snel ging. Het was af en toe wel moeilijk balanceren tussen werken aan Sal en 'echt' onderzoek doen, maar dat laatste is gelukt met als resultaat dit boekje.Als eerste moet ik hier toch Dirk voor bedanken. Hij heeft me de vrijheid gegeven om mijn eigen dingen te doen, en me ondertussen toch een goede richting in te sturen. Ook kon ik altijd terecht als ik met een conceptueel probleem zat, ik niet kon kiezen wat de beste methode was, of om te vragen waar de beste theewinkels in Parijs te vinden zijn. Dirk, bedankt.Switching to English for a while, I want to thank Anton, for being my promotor and for forcing me each year to think about my goals of next year. I want to thank the members of my committee as well, for taking the time to read and comment on this thesis which has an astoundingly little amount of pictures.Next, I want to thank the members of the project I have been working on: SE-MAINE. Marc, you were a great project leader, and I learned a lot from you about working on big projects. Also, I especially want to thank the other 'junior members' of the team: Michel, Hatice, Elisabetta, Florian, Martin and Sathish. Our developermeetings were not only really productive, but also a lot of fun, and I will never forget our excessive dinner in Paris.Uiteraard wil ik ook al mijn collega's bij HMI bedanken, maar een aantal in het bijzonder. Bart, wij zijn ongeveer gelijk begonnen met een onderwerp dat heel erg op elkaar lijkt, maar ook heel verschillend is. Dit heeft er voor gezorgd dat we heel wat uurtjes hebben zitten bakkeleien over beliefs over beliefs en andere conceptuele dingen, en was je de ideale betatester. En ook hebben we heel wat gezellige en ontspannende avonden gehad met z'n drien. Bart, bedankt.Een aantal artikelen heb ik samen met Khiet gemaakt, en haar neigingen om alle gaatjes perfectionistisch af te dichten heeft mij ook een heleboel geleerd. Dennis, jij hebt mij vooral geleerd om op een hoog niveau verder te denken, maar ik kon ook altijd binnenwandelen om een leuke demo te laten zien. Ronald, behalve comic relief bij HMI en onze 'vakantie' naar philadelphia kon ik ook altijd terecht voor een praktisch gesprek en voor tips over classifiers en experiment-opzetten. Iwan, ook wij hebben leuke tripjes gemaakt en hele leuke gesprekken gehad, en ik blijf erbij dat we onze anekdote-agent nog steeds een keer moeten laten maken. En Danny, bedankt vi | Acknowledgements voor het zijn van een geweldige kamergenote (als je er was), voor het uitwisselen van willekeurige nieuwsberichtjes, of om een keer te praten over mijn onderzoek met iemand uit een hele andere hoek.Uiteraard wil ik ook Lynn bedanken, voor het doorlezen en verbeteren van alle kleine puntjes in mijn proefschrift. Hopelijk is mijn dt-probleem nu opgelost. Charlotte en Alice, jullie w...

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How Our Personality Shapes Our Interactions with Virtual Characters - Implications for Research and Development

Cited by 44 publications

References 28 publications

An Examination of Whether People Prefer Agents Whose Gestures Mimic Their Own

An Examination of Whether People Prefer Agents Whose Gestures Mimic Their Own

How Do You Like Your Virtual Agent?: Human-Agent Interaction Experience through Nonverbal Features and Personality Traits

Response selection and turn-taking for a sensitive artificial listening agent

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