Sarah: An ECA in the Wild

Lim, M. Y., Kriegel, M., Aylett, R. and Deshmukh, A. (2010) Sarah: An ECA in the Wild. International Workshop on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters, Toronto, Canada, May 2010. (Unpublished)

Abstract

In this paper we report on a Wizard of Oz interaction study with an Embodied Conversational Agent. The agent was placed on a large display in the university crush area, an informal student meeting space over the course of a week. The main goal of the experiment was to gain information about interesting conversation topics for the students in or-der to inform the design of an autonomous version of the agent that can act as a long term companion in a natural social setting. We report the study results, discuss the possi-ble reasons for the lack of meaningful conversation that the ECA could elicit from the students and report on lessons learned from this experiment.

• Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item
• Status: Unpublished
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Deshmukh, Dr Amol
• Authors: Lim, M. Y., Kriegel, M., Aylett, R., and Deshmukh, A.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science