2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Agreeable People Like Agreeable Virtual Humans
Authors : Sin-Hwa Kang, Jonathan Gratch, Ning Wang, James H. Watt
Published in: Intelligent Virtual Agents
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This study explored associations between the five-factor personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with a virtual agent or real humans. The agent, the Rapport Agent, responded to real human speakers’ storytelling behavior, using only nonverbal contingent (i.e., timely) feedback. We further investigated how interactants’ personalities were related to the three components of rapport: positivity, attentiveness, and coordination. The results revealed that more agreeable people showed strong self-reported rapport and weak behavioral-measured rapport in the disfluency dimension when they interacted with the Rapport Agent, while showing no significant associations between agreeableness and self-reported rapport, nor between agreeableness and the disfluency dimension when they interacted with real humans. The conclusions provide fundamental data to further develop a rapport theory that would contribute to evaluating and enhancing the interactional fidelity of an agent on the design of virtual humans for social skills training and therapy.