A Study of the Use of a Virtual Agent in an Ambient Intelligence Environment

In this paper we present the results in the evaluation of the use of a virtual agent together with a spoken dialogue system in an ambient intelligence environment. To develop the study, 35 different subjects had to perform eight different tasks and fill in a questionnaire with their impressions. Fro...

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Published inIntelligent Virtual Agents pp. 520 - 521
Main Authors Montoro, Germán, Haya, Pablo A., Baldassarri, Sandra, Cerezo, Eva, Serón, Francisco José
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Ambient Intelligence
Computer Science Department
Dialogue System
Engineer Research Institute
Virtual Agent
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Summary:In this paper we present the results in the evaluation of the use of a virtual agent together with a spoken dialogue system in an ambient intelligence environment. To develop the study, 35 different subjects had to perform eight different tasks and fill in a questionnaire with their impressions. From the answers we can conclude that the use of the virtual agent does not provide an improvement in their appreciation of the conversation performance but it offers them a more human-like interaction. Only a minority of users preferred to maintain the conversation without the visual support of the virtual agent.
ISBN:9783540854821
3540854827
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_69