2019/07/14 by Seyedeh Zahra Razavi, Razavi, S. Zahra, Lenhart K. Schubert +5 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Psychology · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning #Social Robot Interaction and HRI #Speech and dialogue systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.06279
openalex publication_date 2019/07/14 · openalex created_date 2022/07/28 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present some results concerning the dialogue behavior and inferred sentiment of a group of older adults interacting with a computer-based avatar. Our avatar is unique in its ability to hold natural dialogues on a wide range of everyday topics---27 topics in three groups, developed with the help of gerontologists. The three groups vary in ``degrees of intimacy", and as such in degrees of difficulty for the user. Each participant interacted with the avatar for 7-9 sessions over a period of 3-4 weeks; analysis of the dialogues reveals correlations such as greater verbosity for more difficult topics, increasing verbosity with successive sessions, especially for more difficult topics, stronger sentiment on topics concerned with life goals rather than routine activities, and stronger self-disclosure for more intimate topics. In addition to their intrinsic interest, these results also reflect positively on the sophistication of our dialogue system.