@inproceedings{c88805a3c9ab4d5ab77b447edb35d479,
title = "Effect of a Virtual Agent{\textquoteright}s Contingent Smile Response on Perceived Social Status",
abstract = "We are investigating if an agent{\textquoteright}s contingent smile during an interaction with a human participant affects the impression of the virtual character{\textquoteright}s social status. Psychological studies show lower status individuals are more likely to show contingent feedback [4]. A “Rock-Paper-Scissors” game is used as the scenario to provide an infrastructure for an interaction between a 3D agent and a human participant. During the interaction we are using electromyographic measurements to determine when the human participant is smiling. Immediately after a detected smiling the virtual character mimics the smile. More specifically, we are expecting that participants form the impression that the character has a low social status when the agent shows contingent smiling behavior. We are currently performing the experiment and a next step is to evaluate the system by analyzing the results.",
author = "Maryam Saberi and Ulysses Bernardet and Steve DiPaola",
year = "2015",
month = aug,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_54",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-21995-0",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "488--491",
booktitle = "IVA 2015: Intelligent Virtual Agents",
address = "Germany",
}