User Engagement and Preferences in Information-Giving Chat with Virtual Agents

Nadine Glas (1) , Catherine Pelachaud (1)

1 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information

We have performed a perceptive study that shows the existence of positive correlations between the user's preferences for an art-work (a physical object) and the user's engagement during the discussion of this object with a virtual agent. This finding encourages the development of agent dialogue strategies that personalise the topic of conversation in information-giving chat according to the user's preferences.

Domaines: Sciences cognitives; Informatique [cs]

Nadine Glas, Catherine Pelachaud. User Engagement and Preferences in Information-Giving Chat with Virtual Agents. Workshop on Engagement in Social Intelligent Virtual Agents (ESIVA), Aug 2015, Delft, Netherlands. pp.33-40. ⟨hal-01213274⟩