Multimodal Corpus Analysis as a Method for Ensuring Cultural Usability of Embodied Conversational Agents

Authors:
Yukiko Nakano;Matthias Rehm
Affiliations:
Faculty of Science and Technology, Seikei University Tokyo,;Faculty of Applied Informatics, University of Augsburg,
Venue:
HCD 09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Human Centered Design: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper we propose the method of multimodal corpus analysis to collect enough empirical data for modeling the behavior of embodied conversational agents. This is a prerequisite to ensure the usability of such complex interactive systems. So far, the development of embodied agents suffers from a lack of explicit usability methods. In most cases, the consideration of usability aspects is constrained to preliminary user tests at the end of the development process.