Artificial companion and acceptability a problem of design?

Sylvie Pesty (1) , Dominique Duhaut (2)

1 Leibniz - IMAG - Laboratoire Leibniz
2 Lab-STICC - Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance (UMR 3192)

We are in front of an evolution from traditional human-computer interactions to a kind of intense exchange between the human user and new generation of artificial systems. These systems can be virtual, Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs), or real systems robots. We call these systems "artificial companions" that is to say systems with which the user wants to build a kind of life-long relationship. In previous work [16] we study long term interaction and shown that emotions and personality are important features to establish this long relation. In this paper we want to go farther and discuss the set of dimensions to take into account to build an acceptable artificial companion.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Sylvie Pesty, Dominique Duhaut. Artificial companion and acceptability a problem of design?. CogInfoCom 2012 * 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, Dec 2012, Slovenia. ⟨hal-00764351⟩