Paper Info
Title
How multiple concurrent users react to a quiz agent attentive to the dynamics of their game participation
Abstract
This paper presents a quiz game agent who is attentive to the dynamics of multiple concurrent participants. The attentiveness of this agent is meant to be achieved by an utterance policy that determines the nature of the utterance and whether, when, and to whom to utter. Two heuristics are introduced to drive the policy: the interaction atmosphere (AT) of the participants and the participant who tends to lead the conversation (CLP) at a specifi time point. They are estimated from the activeness of the participants' face movements and acoustic information during their discussion of the answer. In order to the inherent drawback of a 2D agent that makes it difficult for multiple concurrent users to distinguish the focus of its attention, a physical pointer is also introduced. This system is then evaluated using questionnaire investigation and video data analysis. The joint results of the experiments indicated that the methods for estimating AT and CLP worked. The participants pay more attention to the agent and participate in the game more actively if the indication of the pointer is more comprehensive.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.5555/1838206.1838373
AAMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
quiz agent attentive,joint result,acoustic information,multiple concurrent participant,quiz game agent,inherent drawback,interaction atmosphere,physical pointer,game participation,utterance policy,multiple concurrent user,face movement
Drawback,Multimodal interaction,Pointer (computer programming),Conversation,Time point,Computer science,Utterance,Heuristics,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.59
10
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hung-Hsuan Huang114032.60
Takuya Furukawa2111.64
Hiroki Ohashi3268.58
Toyoaki Nishida41097196.19
Aleksandra Cerekovic5759.76
Igor S. Pandzic632739.73
Yukiko Nakano7192.31