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React to this! How humans challenge interactive agents using nonverbal behaviors

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Thesis type
(Thesis) M.Sc.
Date created
2024-04-22
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Abstract
How do people use their faces and bodies to test the interactive abilities of a robot? Making lively, believable agents is often seen as a goal for robots and virtual agents but believability can easily break down. In this Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) study, we observed 1169 nonverbal interactions between 20 adult participants and 6 types of agents. We collected the nonverbal behaviors participants used to challenge the characters physically, emotionally, and socially. The participants interacted freely with humanoid and non-humanoid forms: a robot, a human, a penguin, a pufferfish, a banana, and a toilet. We present a human behavior codebook of 188 unique nonverbal behaviors used by humans to test the virtual characters. An additional study was conducted with minor neurodiverse participants to understand Human-Agent Interaction for a greater population. The insights and design strategies drawn from video observations aim to help build more interaction-aware and believable robots, especially when humans push them to their limits.
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57 pages.
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etd23057
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Thesis advisor: Lim, Angelica
Language
English
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