Offscreen and in the Chair Next to Your: Conversational Agents Speaking Through Actual Human Bodies

Corti, Kevin; Gillespie, Alex

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_44

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“…In one experiment, Corti and Gillespie had participants engage in 10-minute interactions with different chatbot engines, either using the text-based interface or (under deception) through the Echoborg, and evaluate their conversation partner and the interaction afterwards. Results were that while participants described their conversation partners as mechanical and robotic after using the textual interface, the same conversation experienced through an Echoborg caused participants to describe their conversation partners with human characteristics, such as shy, awkward and autistic (Corti and Gillespie, 2015). Participants' ratings on how comfortable they felt during the interaction showed that interactions with the Echoborg was rated significantly less comfortable than with the textual interface for two of the three types of chatbot engines.…”

Section: Cyranoids and Echoborgsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…More technical adjectives were used for the textual interface, and the Echoborg was described with human-like characteristics -"Participants who spoke with an echoborg based their personality judgements to what they saw: a human person sitting directly in front of them. Participants who spoke with a text interface based their personality judgements to what they saw: a computer screen" (Corti and Gillespie, 2015). Second, the observation that participants feel less comfortable with the same conversation through an Echoborg than through the textual interface further underlines that "face-to-face, in-the-flesh interactions place much higher intersubjective demands on the parties to an encounter" (Corti and Gillespie, 2015).…”

Section: Cyranoids and Echoborgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants who spoke with a text interface based their personality judgements to what they saw: a computer screen" (Corti and Gillespie, 2015). Second, the observation that participants feel less comfortable with the same conversation through an Echoborg than through the textual interface further underlines that "face-to-face, in-the-flesh interactions place much higher intersubjective demands on the parties to an encounter" (Corti and Gillespie, 2015).…”

Section: Cyranoids and Echoborgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Voice and video calls are part of most people's everyday life. These are examples of technology being used to mediate social interaction between humans. Virtual and augmented reality technologies (VR and AR) play an increasing role in new applications for mediated social interaction. VR and AR can be used to improve upon conventional communication technologies by creating an increased sense of being together in a shared (virtual) space. For interactions where user's physical surroundings are important, mixed reality (MR) can offer further improvements by integrating the physical world into the experience. Another addition can be artificial virtual humans that are controlled by the application, but that can be interacted with using language and gestures. Examples are VR training systems with intelligent virtual humans that allow for practicing skills such as effective negotiation or public speaking. MR telepresence systems allow for people to solve complex problems remotely that previously required physical presence.In this thesis, we have explored different and novel forms of mediated social interactions that are using these technologies. We have looked at how they could play out in the future, in a number of different contexts. These included (simulated) face-toface interactions with (virtual) humans, social conflict situations, as well as remote collaboration tasks with other humans. Besides interactions with artificial virtual humans, and interactions with virtual avatars that embody real humans, we have also explored the concept of interacting with humans that are embodying the mind of artificial actors.Most research was conducted in the form of lab studies, using working prototypes. We have employed qualitative and quantitative methods for evaluation, and a variety of measures across these studies. These measures included physiological responses, how participants perceived the interaction, how they perceived other interlocutors, their feeling of immersion and their perception of social presence with other actors.The varied findings across these studies are reflected upon through the lens of a conceptual, science-fiction-inspired telepresence system: the SoIC-TV. By developing this concept throughout the thesis, we illustrate how in the future, mediated interaction experience using MR technology might transform beyond what is familiar both from co-located and present technology-mediated interactions.

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Section: Cyranoids and Echoborgsmentioning

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“…However, given the hybrid nature of the (M)EB (mind of a machine, body of a human), the prior work does not allow for direct predictions in this regard. In previous work on EBs, the non-EB condition featured textual interfaces rather than alternative (artificial) embodiments [46,47,48], and as such does not provide insights on how an (M)EB might perform when compared to other embodied agents. For our present work, we compare two conversational agent embodiments with a representation of a real or virtual body, pulling the compared conditions more alike.…”

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“…From the point of view of the methodology, we referred to Corti et. al [46] as benchmark. They analysed the adjectives participants attributed to the respective conversational partner.…”

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A multidisciplinary investigation to unravel the complexity of the sense of embodiment in teleoperation

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The multimodal EchoBorg: not as smart as it looks

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Bruijnes

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J Multimodal User Interfaces

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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 Echoborg, i.e, a person whose actions are covertly controlled by a dialogue system. The Echoborg in our study not only shadowed the speech output of the dialogue system but also its non-verbal actions. The interactions were structured as a debate between three participants on an ethical dilemma. First, we collected a corpus of debate sessions with three humans debaters. This we used as baseline to design and implement our ECAs. For the experiment, we designed two debate conditions. In one the participant interacted with two ECAs both embodied by virtual humans). In the other the participant interacted with one ECA embodied by a VH and the other by an Echoborg. Our results show that a human embodiment of the ECA overall scores better on perceived social attributes of the ECA. In many other respects the Echoborg scores as poorly as the VH except copresence.

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Offscreen and in the Chair Next to Your: Conversational Agents Speaking Through Actual Human Bodies

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From Head Transform to Mind Transplant : Social Interactions in Mixed Reality

From Head Transform to Mind Transplant : Social Interactions in Mixed Reality

A multidisciplinary investigation to unravel the complexity of the sense of embodiment in teleoperation

The multimodal EchoBorg: not as smart as it looks

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