Towards influencing of the conversational agent mental state in the task of active listening

Authors:
Stanislav Ondáš;Elisabetta Bevacqua;Jozef Juhár;Peter Demeter
Affiliations:
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Laboratory of speech technologies, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia;CNRS, Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Laboratory of speech technologies, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia;Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Laboratory of speech technologies, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
Venue:
COST'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Development of Multimodal Interfaces: active Listening and Synchrony
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The proposed paper describes an approach that was used to influence conversational agent Greta’s mental state. The beginning this paper introduces the problem of conversational agents, especially in the listener role. The listener’s backchannels also influence its mental state. The simple agent state manager was developed to impact Greta’s internal state. After describing this manager, we present an overview of evaluation experiments carried out to obtain information about agent state manager functionality, as well as the impact of the mental state changes on the overall interaction.