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CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Relational agents: a model and implementation of building user trust
Building trust with users is crucial in a wide range of applications, such as advice-giving or financial transactions, and some minimal degree of trust is required in all applicat...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Justine Cassell
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Agent Competence on User Performance and Perception
We studied the role of the competence of an interface agent that helped users to learn and use a text editor. Participants in the study made a set of changes to a document with th...
Jun Xiao, John T. Stasko, Richard Catrambone
ITS
2010
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Socially Capable Conversational Tutors Can Be Effective in Collaborative Learning Situations
Tutorial Dialog has been shown to be effective in supporting both individual as well as group learners. However, unlike the case with individual learners, teams of learners often i...
Rohit Kumar, Hua Ai, Jack L. Beuth, Carolyn Penste...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Can software agents influence human relations?: balance theory in agent-mediated communities
We sought to create a social embodied conversational agent to support group interactions, using ‘balance theory’ from social science research on human-human relations. We cond...
Hideyuki Nakanishi, Satoshi Nakazawa, Toru Ishida,...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
The comforting presence of relational agents
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman