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Title: | Emphatic agents to reduce user frustration: The effects of varying agent characteristics |
Authors: | Hone, KS |
Keywords: | Affective Computing;HCI |
Issue Date: | 2006 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Interacting With Computers. 18 (2): 227-245 |
Abstract: | There is now growing interest in the development of computer systems which respond to users’ emotion and affect. We report three small scale studies (with a total of 42 participants) which investigate the extent to which affective agents, using strategies derived from human-human interaction, can reduce user frustration within human-computer interaction. The results confirm the previous findings of Klein et al (2002) that such interventions can be effective. We also obtained results that suggest that embodied agents can be more effective at reducing frustration than non-embodied agents, and that female embodied agents may be more effective than male embodied agents. These results are discussed in light of the existing research literature. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3107 http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525445/description#description |
ISSN: | 0953-5438 |
Appears in Collections: | Computer Science Dept of Computer Science Research Papers |
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