This paper describes the preliminary results of a study conducted to answer the question: Do users attribute moral accountability to personified agent technologies? A pilot study ...
Nathan G. Freier, Elia J. Nelson, Amanda Rotondo, ...
Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore
One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
Social agents have recently been more frequently used in the user interface. However, so far not many studies have been conducted on what impact such interfaces have on users beha...
We performed an empirical study exploring people's interactions with an embodied conversational agent (ECA) while performing two tasks. Conditions varied with respect to 1) w...