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Title | ||
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Towards building a virtual counselor: modeling nonverbal behavior during intimate self-disclosure |
Abstract | ||
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Nonverbal behavior is considered critical for indicating intimacy and is important when designing a social virtual agent such as a counselor. One key research question is how to properly express intimate self-disclosure. In this paper we present an extensive study of human nonverbal behavior during intimate self-disclosure. This is an important milestone in creating a virtual counselor. A study of video interactions between human participants demonstrated that people display more head tilts and pauses when they revealed highly intimate information about themselves; they presented more head nods and eye gazes during less intimate sharing. An implementation of these behaviors in a virtual agent suggests that people tend to perceive head tilts, pauses and gaze aversion by the agent as conveying intimate self-disclosure. These findings are important for future research with virtual counselors and other social agents. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.5555/2343576.2343585 | AAMAS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
extensive study,virtual agent,nonverbal behavior,important milestone,social virtual agent,intimate information,social agent,intimate sharing,virtual counselor,intimate self-disclosure,self disclosure | Research question,Gaze,Affective behavior,Computer science,Virtual agent,Cognitive psychology,Social agents,Artificial intelligence,Self-disclosure,Nonverbal behavior,Machine learning | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-9817381-1-7 | 11 | 0.70 |
References | Authors | |
9 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sin-Hwa Kang | 1 | 229 | 21.42 |
| Jonathan Gratch | 2 | 3721 | 379.33 |
| Candy Sidner | 3 | 86 | 13.03 |
| Ron Artstein | 4 | 807 | 59.76 |
| Lixing Huang | 5 | 113 | 8.89 |
| Louis-Philippe Morency | 6 | 3220 | 200.79 |