Othello, also known as Reversi, is a popular 2-players board game. Olivaw is an intelligent agent playing Othello. Compared to the most famous ones (such as Saio), it exploits limited resources by autonomously learning how to improve its gameplay by ...

While chatbots represent a potentially useful supplement to government information and service provision, transparency requirements imply the need to make sure that this technology is not confused with human support. However, there is a knowledge ...

Anthropomorphism is a well-used but vague concept that demands further understanding and clarification to be effectively used in HRI research. Although most HRI research defines and uses anthropomorphism as a human-like attribution process, there is lack ...

Trust in chatbots can be shaped by various factors such as humanlikeness in terms of visual appearance and conversational content, and conversational performance in terms of the chatbot’s ability to avoid conversational breakdown. The literature is ...

Olivaw is an AI Othello playing agent which autonomously learns how to improve its gameplay by playing against itself. Some top-notch players (including former World Champions) reported that they had the impression that Olivaw's gameplay was human-like. ...

Previous research in psychology has found that human faces have the capability of being more distracting under high perceptual load conditions compared to non-face objects. This project aims to assess the distracting potential of robot faces based on ...

We compared anthropomorphic language use in online forums about the Amazon Echo Show, Q.bo One, and Anki Vector; carrying out a content analysis of forum and Reddit threads, as well as a Facebook group. Our expectation was to find the highest amount of ...

Virtual Reality experiences and games present believable virtual environments based on graphical quality, spatial audio, and interactivity. The interaction with in-game characters, controlled by computers (agents) or humans (avatars), is an important ...

Congruence between the visual appearance of a robot and its behavioral and communicative characteristics has been shown to be a crucial determinant of user acceptance. Given the growing popularity of speech interfaces, a coherent design of a robot's ...

Through technological advancements in various areas of our lives, Conversational Agents progressed in their human-likeness. In the field of HCI, however, the use of conversational fillers (e.g., "um," "uh," etc.) by Conversational Agents have not been ...

Anthropomorphic robots, or robots with human-like appearance features such as eyes, hands, or faces, have drawn considerable attention in recent years. To date, what makes a robot appear human-like has been driven by designers» and researchers» ...

Recent proposals for how robots should talk to people when they give advice suggest that the same strategies humans employ with other humans are effective for robots as well. However, the evidence is exclusively based on people's observation of robot ...

The current understanding is that human-likeness of a robot leads to better human perception. However, the factors have not been thoroughly studied. We conducted a laboratory experiment to examine two questions: how verb acquisition ability affects ...