Novielli Nicole, Mazzotta Irene, De Carolis Berardina, Pizzutilo Sebastiano
Intelligent Interfaces, Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy.
Cogn Process. 2012 Oct;13 Suppl 2:487-97. doi: 10.1007/s10339-011-0420-1. Epub 2011 Oct 14.
In this paper, we investigate the user's reactions to received suggestion by an Embodied Conversational Agent playing the role of artificial therapist in the healthy eating domain. Specifically, we analyse the behaviour of people who voluntarily requested to receive information from the agent, and we compare it with the results of a previous evaluation experiment in which subjects were not properly motivated to interact with the agent because they were selected for evaluating the system. This study is part of an ongoing research aimed at developing an intelligent virtual agent that applies natural argumentation techniques to persuade the users to improve their eating habits.
在本文中，我们研究了用户对具身对话代理在健康饮食领域扮演人工治疗师角色时所提供建议的反应。具体而言，我们分析了那些自愿请求从该代理获取信息的人的行为，并将其与之前一项评估实验的结果进行比较，在之前的实验中，由于受试者是被挑选来评估系统的，所以他们没有足够的积极性与代理进行互动。本研究是一项正在进行的研究的一部分，该研究旨在开发一个智能虚拟代理，该代理应用自然论证技术来说服用户改善他们的饮食习惯。
