The role of emotion in believable agents
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Looking for the bright side of user interface agents
interactions
Practical methods for automatically generating typed links
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ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine
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Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
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Automated story capture from internet weblogs
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A virtual laboratory for studying long-term relationships between humans and virtual agents
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IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Autobiographic knowledge for believable virtual characters
IVA'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Engaging learning groups using social interaction strategies
HLT '10 Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
High score!: motivation strategies for user participation in virtual human development
IVA'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
AIED'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Artificial intelligence in education
IVA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent virtual agents
Long-term socially perceptive and interactive robot companions: challenges and future perspectives
ICMI '11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces
Comparing triggering policies for social behaviors
SIGDIAL '11 Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference
Towards building a virtual counselor: modeling nonverbal behavior during intimate self-disclosure
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
A highly elaborative reminiscing virtual agent to enhance student memory of virtual world events
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Triggering effective social support for online groups
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
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We discuss the ethical and practical issues involved in developing virtual humans that relate personal, fictitious, human autobiographical stories ("back stories") to their users. We describe a virtual human exercise counselor that interacts with users daily to promote exercise, and the integration of a dynamic social storytelling engine used to maintain user engagement with the agent and retention in the intervention. A longitudinal randomized controlled experiment tested user attitudes towards the agent when it presented the stories in first person (as its own history) compared to third person (as happening to humans that it knew). Participants in the first person condition reported enjoying their interactions with the agent significantly more and completed more conversations with the agent, compared to participants in the third person condition, while ratings of agent dishonesty were not significantly different between the groups.