Agents with Character: Evaluation of Empathic Agents in Digital Dossiers

摘要: We propose a theory of user engagement with empathic agents (Interactive PEFiC) that features fundamental involvement-distance trade-off to explain the mixed emotions users may experience while interacting anthropomorphic software. For experimental evaluation our theory, we designed an environment for agent applications in cultural heritage domain. In this context, will introduce notion digital dossiers, which contain information about contemporary works art, including videorecorded interviews artist. area application, intend investigate efficiency and effectiveness guidance offered by agents, characteristics be varied across parameters distinguished PEFiC-model. technical realization, use DLP/STEP platform, supports rich-media 3D environments.