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What Kind of Stories Should a Virtual Human Swap?

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Telling stories is an important aspect virtual agents designed to interact with people socially over time. We describe an experiment designed to investigate the impact of the identity, presentation form, and perspective of a virtual storyteller on a human user who engages in a story-swapping activity with two virtual characters. For each interaction, the user was given 10 “ice-breaker” questions to ask a virtual character and respond to the character’s reciprocal request. Participants also filled out a post-interaction survey, measuring rapport with the character and impressions of the character’s personality. Results generally show that participants prefer characters who tell first person stories, however there were some interactions with presentation order. No significant preferences were established for the form or identity variables.

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The effort described here is supported by the U.S. Army. Any opinion, content or information presented does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the United States Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred. We owe special thanks to Anton Leuski, Ed Fast, Arno Hartholt, Abigail Kronenberg, Andrew Jones, Jill Boberg and Rachel Wood for helping us through the course of this project.

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    Setareh Nasihati Gilani, Gale Lucas & David Traum

  2. United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 10996, USA

    Kraig Sheetz

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    David Traum

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William Swartout

  3. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  4. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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  6. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Gilani, S.N., Sheetz, K., Lucas, G., Traum, D. (2016). What Kind of Stories Should a Virtual Human Swap?. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_12

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