Prosodic alignment in human-computer interaction Export

@article{citeulike:4311380, abstract = {Androids that replicate humans in form also need to replicate them in behaviour to achieve a high level of believability or lifelikeness. We explore the minimal social cues that can induce in people the human tendency for social acceptance, or ethopoeia, toward artifacts, including androids. It has been observed that people exhibit a strong tendency to adjust to each other, through a number of speech and language features in human-human conversational interactions, to obtain communication efficiency and emotional engagement. We investigate in this paper the phenomena related to prosodic alignment in human-computer interactions, with particular focus on human-computer alignment of speech characteristics. We found that people exhibit unidirectional and spontaneous short-term alignment of loudness and response latency in their speech in response to computer-generated speech. We believe this phenomenon of prosodic alignment provides one of the key components for building social acceptance of androids.}, address = {Bristol, PA, USA}, author = {Suzuki, N. and Katagiri, Y.}, citeulike-article-id = {4311380}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1392495}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540090701369125}, doi = {10.1080/09540090701369125}, issn = {0954-0091}, journal = {Connection Science}, keywords = {communication-accomodation, convergence, prosodic-alignment, prosody}, number = {2}, pages = {131--141}, posted-at = {2009-04-15 00:48:04}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis, Inc.}, title = {Prosodic alignment in human-computer interaction}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540090701369125}, volume = {19}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4311380 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4311380 N2 - Androids that replicate humans in form also need to replicate them in behaviour to achieve a high level of believability or lifelikeness. We explore the minimal social cues that can induce in people the human tendency for social acceptance, or ethopoeia, toward artifacts, including androids. It has been observed that people exhibit a strong tendency to adjust to each other, through a number of speech and language features in human-human conversational interactions, to obtain communication efficiency and emotional engagement. We investigate in this paper the phenomena related to prosodic alignment in human-computer interactions, with particular focus on human-computer alignment of speech characteristics. We found that people exhibit unidirectional and spontaneous short-term alignment of loudness and response latency in their speech in response to computer-generated speech. We believe this phenomenon of prosodic alignment provides one of the key components for building social acceptance of androids. IS - 2 JF - Connection Science SN - 0954-0091 AD - Bristol, PA, USA EP - 141 TI - Prosodic alignment in human-computer interaction PB - Taylor & Francis, Inc. VL - 19 SP - 131 KW - communication-accomodation KW - convergence KW - prosodic-alignment KW - prosody AU - Suzuki, N AU - Katagiri, Y PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540090701369125 ER -