Authors:
Tomoko Koda
;
Taku Hirano
and
Takuto Ishioh
Affiliation:
Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Keyword(s):
Intelligent Virtual Agents, Human-agent Interaction, Gaze, Non-verbal Behaviour, Cross-culture, Perception, Evaluation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Conversational Agents
Abstract:
Gaze plays an important role in human-human communication. Adequate gaze control of a virtual agent is also essential for successful and believable human-agent interaction. Researchers in intelligent virtual agents have developed gaze control models by taking account of gaze duration, frequency and timing of gaze aversion. However, none of them have considered cultural differences in gaze behaviours. We aim to investigate cultural differences in gaze behaviours and their perception, by developing virtual agents with Japanese gaze behaviours, western gaze behaviours, their hybrid gaze behaviours, and full gaze behaviours, and compare their effects on the impressions of the agents and interactions. This position paper proposes our research agenda, describes the implemented gaze models, and our experimental design.