Evaluating the interaction with synthetic agents using attention and affect tracking

Helmut Prendinger; Chunling Ma; Jin Yingzi; Kushida Kazutaka; Mitsuru Ishizuka

Evaluating the interaction with synthetic agents using attention and affect tracking

Helmut Prendinger^*, Chunling Ma, Jin Yingzi, Kushida Kazutaka, Mitsuru Ishizuka

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Abstract

We motivate an approach to evaluating the utility of synthetic agents that is based on human physiology rather than questionnaires. The primary tool is an eye tracker that provides quantitative evidence of a user's focus of attention. The secondary tool is a signal encoder for skin conductance and heart rate in order to gain insight into the user's affective state. The salient feature of our evaluation strategy is that it allows us to measure important properties of the user's interaction experience on a moment-by-moment basis. We describe an empirical study in which we compare attending behavior and affect of participants watching the presentation of an apartment by three types of media: a synthetic agent, a text box, and speech only.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents
Editors	F. Dignum, V. Dignum, S. Koenig, S. Kraus, M. Pechoucek, M. Singh, D. Steiner, S. Thompson, M. Wooldridge
Pages	1219-1220
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05 - Utrecht Duration: 2005 Jul 25 → 2005 Jul 29

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Other	4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05
City	Utrecht
Period	05/7/25 → 05/7/29

Keywords

Eye tracking
Presentation
Synthetic agents
User study

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Engineering(all)

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Evaluating the interaction with synthetic agents using attention and affect tracking. / Prendinger, Helmut; Ma, Chunling; Yingzi, Jin et al.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents. ed. / F. Dignum; V. Dignum; S. Koenig; S. Kraus; M. Pechoucek; M. Singh; D. Steiner; S. Thompson; M. Wooldridge. 2005. p. 1219-1220.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Prendinger, H, Ma, C, Yingzi, J, Kazutaka, K & Ishizuka, M 2005, Evaluating the interaction with synthetic agents using attention and affect tracking. in F Dignum, V Dignum, S Koenig, S Kraus, M Pechoucek, M Singh, D Steiner, S Thompson & M Wooldridge (eds), Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents. pp. 1219-1220, 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05, Utrecht, 05/7/25.

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