What is it about?
Social agents should exhibit socially adequate behavior to fit the context they meet. But can a simple cube shaped character be interpreted as socially motivated? We conducted an experimental study to understand if observers perceived agents capable of adapting to the context as social beings.
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Why is it important?
Our findings suggest that (a) despite no other agents being present, participants ascribe social motivations to the agent’s adaptive behavior, (b) such attributions are independent of visual cues, and (c) even without any pre-established norms, agents that consistently adjust their behavior to the physical context are perceived as more social.
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This work is the first of a series of experimental studies towards understanding how observers perceive characters in virtual environments. In this research avenue I want to explore how several facets of the context can affect how humans interpret agents' behaviors. Presenting this paper at the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction was an excellent opportunity to share with the community our first results and receiving the best paper award was an important motivator to keep following this research vector.
Diogo Rato
Universidade de Lisboa
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This page is a summary of: Fitting the Room: Social Motivations for Context-Aware Agents, November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3472307.3484185.
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