Paper Info
Title
Would you Follow my Instructions if I was not Human? Examining Obedience towards Virtual Agents
Abstract
Virtual agents play an important role when we interact with machines. They are in the role of assistants or companions with less or more human-like appearance. Such agents influence our behavior. With an increasing and broader distribution, their influence might become stronger, and at some point, they might even adopt roles with a degree of authority. This paper presents the results of a study that examines the obedience of human users towards a) an embodied virtual agent in the role of an instructor and b) a human in the role of an instructor. Under a cover-story of a creativity test, participants should fulfill stressful and shameful tasks. Our results indicate that the embodied virtual agent has the same authority as the human instructor. The agent is also able to elicit the same level of the negative feelings stress and shame.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ACII.2019.8925501
2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Obedience,Virtual Agents,User Study
Obedience,Social psychology,Task analysis,Shame,Computer science,Virtual agent,Embodied cognition,Creativity,Robot,Feeling
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2156-8103
978-1-7281-3889-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tanja Schneeberger100.34
Sofie Ehrhardt200.34
Manuel S. Anglet300.34
Patrick Gebhard435033.05