I Remember You! Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor
Hastie, Helen, Lim, Mei Yii, Janarthanam, Srini, Deshmukh, Amol, Aylett, Ruth, Foster, Mary Ellen and Hall, Lynne (2016) I Remember You! Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor. In: AAMAS 2016, 9-13 May 2016, Singapore.
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Abstract
We present a study that investigates the effect of incorporating memory in the interaction for a virtual robotic tutor in terms of helping children achieve a pedagogical goal and the perceived likeability and empathy of the tutor. The domain is a virtual robotic tutor who is guiding and helping learners through a mobile Treasure Hunt exercise that tests their map reading skills. The contribution described in this paper is the discovery that incorporating `memory' through utterances that recall events from previous interactions significantly increases the learner's ability to perform a pedagogical task. However, the virtual tutor with memory was perceived as less likeable and the instructions given as harder to follow than with a virtual tutor without memory. In addition, there was a significant drop in perceived empathy. This work has a large potential influence in the field of interaction design for agents as one cannot blindly add in human-like features, such as, memory that improve task performance without considering the potential detrimental effects to the perceived empathy and likeability.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Subjects: | Computing > Human-Computer Interaction Education > Learning Technology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Technology Faculty of Technology > School of Computer Science Faculty of Technology > FOT Executive |
Depositing User: | Paula Normington |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2016 16:02 |
Last Modified: | 18 Dec 2019 15:38 |
URI: | http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/5985 |
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