This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 21381 “Conversational Agen... more This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 21381 “Conversational Agent as Trustworthy Autonomous System (Trust-CA)”. First, we present the abstracts of the talks delivered by the Seminar’s attendees. Then we report on the origin and process of our six breakout (working) groups. For each group, we describe its contributors, goals and key questions, key insights, and future research. The themes of the groups were derived from a pre-Seminar survey, which also led to a list of suggested readings for the topic of trust in conversational agents. The list is included in this report for references. Seminar September 19–24, 2021 – http://www.dagstuhl.de/21381 2012 ACM Subject Classification Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI)
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2021
Predictability is important to autistic individuals, and robots have been suggested to meet this ... more Predictability is important to autistic individuals, and robots have been suggested to meet this need as they can be programmed to be predictable, as well as elicit social interaction. The effectiveness of robot-assisted interventions designed for social skill learning presumably depends on the interplay between robot predictability, engagement in learning, and the individual differences between different autistic children. To better understand this interplay, we report on a study where 24 autistic children participated in a robot-assisted intervention. We manipulated the variance in the robot’s behaviour as a way to vary predictability, and measured the children’s behavioural engagement, visual attention, as well as their individual factors. We found that the children will continue engaging in the activity behaviourally, but may start to pay less visual attention over time to activity-relevant locations when the robot is less predictable. Instead, they increasingly start to look aw...
This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 21381 “Conversational Agen... more This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 21381 “Conversational Agent as Trustworthy Autonomous System (Trust-CA)”. First, we present the abstracts of the talks delivered by the Seminar’s attendees. Then we report on the origin and process of our six breakout (working) groups. For each group, we describe its contributors, goals and key questions, key insights, and future research. The themes of the groups were derived from a pre-Seminar survey, which also led to a list of suggested readings for the topic of trust in conversational agents. The list is included in this report for references. Seminar September 19–24, 2021 – http://www.dagstuhl.de/21381 2012 ACM Subject Classification Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI)
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2021
Predictability is important to autistic individuals, and robots have been suggested to meet this ... more Predictability is important to autistic individuals, and robots have been suggested to meet this need as they can be programmed to be predictable, as well as elicit social interaction. The effectiveness of robot-assisted interventions designed for social skill learning presumably depends on the interplay between robot predictability, engagement in learning, and the individual differences between different autistic children. To better understand this interplay, we report on a study where 24 autistic children participated in a robot-assisted intervention. We manipulated the variance in the robot’s behaviour as a way to vary predictability, and measured the children’s behavioural engagement, visual attention, as well as their individual factors. We found that the children will continue engaging in the activity behaviourally, but may start to pay less visual attention over time to activity-relevant locations when the robot is less predictable. Instead, they increasingly start to look aw...
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