Applying a Text-Based Affective Dialogue System in Psychological Research: Case Studies on the Effects of System Behaviour, Interaction Context and Social Exclusion
Marcin Skowron, Stefan Rank, Aleksandra Swiderska, Dennis Kuester and Arvid Kappas
This article presents two studies conducted with an affective dialogue system in which text-based system-user communication was used to model, generate and present different affective and social interaction scenarios. We specifically investigated the influence of interaction context and roles assigned to the system and the participants, as well as the impact of pre-structured social interaction patterns that were modelled to mimic aspects of "social exclusion" scenarios. The results of the first study demonstrate that both the social context of the interaction and the roles assigned to the system influence the system evaluation, interaction patterns, textual expressions of affective states, as well as emotional self-reports. The results observed for the second study show the system's ability to partially exclude a participant from a triadic conversation without triggering significantly different affective reactions or a more negative system evaluation. The experimental evidence provides insights on the perception, modelling and generation of affective and social cues in artificial systems that can be realized in different modalities, including the text modality, thus delivering valuable input for applying affective dialogue systems as tools for studying affect and social aspects in online communication.
Applying a Text-Based Affective Dialogue System in Psychological Research: Case Studies on the Effects of System Behaviour, Interaction Context and Social Exclusion
Creators
Marcin Skowron - Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Stefan Rank - Drexel University
Aleksandra Swiderska - Jacobs University
Dennis Kuester - Univ Bremen, D-28759 Bremen, Germany
Arvid Kappas - Jacobs University
Publication Details
Cognitive computation, v 6(4), pp 872-891
Publisher
Springer Nature
Number of pages
20
Resource Type
Journal article
Language
English
Academic Unit
Digital Media
Web of Science ID
WOS:000345994900020
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84916230463
Other Identifier
991019167468604721
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