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We study whether a virtual agent that delivers humor through verbal behavior can affect an individual’s proxemic behavior towards the agent. Participants interacted with a virtual agent through natural language and, in a separate task, performed an embodied interpersonal interaction task in a virtual environment. The study used minimum distance as the dependent measure. Humor generated by the virtual agent through a text chat did not have any significant effects on the proxemic task. This is likely due to the experimental constraint of only allowing participants to interact with a disembodied agent through a textual chat dialogue.
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Khooshabeh, P., McCall, C., Gandhe, S., Gratch, J., Blascovich, J.: Does it matter if a computer jokes. In: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI EA 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 77–86 (2011)
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Khooshabeh, P., Gandhe, S., McCall, C., Gratch, J., Blascovich, J., Traum, D. (2011). The Effects of Virtual Agent Humor and Gaze Behavior on Human-Virtual Agent Proxemics. In: Vilhjálmsson, H.H., Kopp, S., Marsella, S., Thórisson, K.R. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6895. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23974-8_61
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