Psychological Influence of Double-Bind Situations in Human-Agent Interaction

Double-bind situations, which have been considered in family therapy as a cause of negative influences into humans, can happen even in human-agent interaction, in particular, under mental therapeutic contexts. This paper reports a psychological experiment to investigate their influences into human s...

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Published in:Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology pp. 102 - 108
Main Authors: Nomura, Tatsuya, Okuyama, Nobuyuki
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 02.11.2007
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Computer vision > Computer vision tasks
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Distributed artificial intelligence > Intelligent agents
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge representation and reasoning > Cognitive robotics
Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Philosophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence > Cognitive science
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Model development and analysis
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Model development and analysis > Model verification and validation
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI)
Mathematics of computing > Probability and statistics
Mathematics of computing > Probability and statistics > Statistical paradigms > Exploratory data analysis
ISBN:0769530273, 9780769530277
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Summary:Double-bind situations, which have been considered in family therapy as a cause of negative influences into humans, can happen even in human-agent interaction, in particular, under mental therapeutic contexts. This paper reports a psychological experiment to investigate their influences into human subjects' impression evaluation of agents, while taking into account computer anxiety as one of human personal traits and face image animation as one of agent characteristics. Experimental results indicated that subjects with higher computer anxiety had more negative impression for the agent with face image animation than the one without face images. We discuss its implication on agent design, in particular, mental therapeutic agents.
ISBN:0769530273
9780769530277
DOI:10.1109/IAT.2007.85