Title
Toward An Objective Linguistic-Based Measure Of Perceived Embodied Conversational Agent Power And Likeability
Abstract
Embodied conversational agents (ECA) are a type of intelligent, multimodal computer interface that allow computers to interact with humans in a face-to-face manner. It is quite feasible that ECAs will someday replace the common keyboard as a human-computer interface. However, we have much to understand about how people interact with such embodied virtual agents. In this study, we performed a laboratory experiment, in an airport screening context, to assess how people's linguistic behavior changes with their perceptions of the ECA's power and likeability. The results show that people tend to manifest more verbal immediacy and expressivity, as well as offer more information about themselves, with ECAs they perceive as more likeable and less powerful.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1080/10447318.2014.888504
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
30
6
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1044-7318
3
0.39
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthew D. Pickard180.81
Judee K. Burgoon294785.81
Douglas C. Derrick310511.91