Virtual Rapport Export

@incollection{citeulike:1610605, abstract = {Effective face-to-face conversations are highly interactive. Participants respond to each other, engaging in nonconscious behavioral mimicry and backchanneling feedback. Such behaviors produce a subjective sense of rapport and are correlated with effective communication, greater liking and trust, and greater influence between participants. Creating rapport requires a tight sense-act loop that has been traditionally lacking in embodied conversational agents. Here we describe a system, based on psycholinguistic theory, designed to create a sense of rapport between a human speaker and virtual human listener. We provide empirical evidence that it increases speaker fluency and engagement.}, author = {Gratch, Jonathan and Okhmatovskaia, Anna and Lamothe, Francois and Marsella, Stacy and Morales, Mathieu and van der Werf, R. and Morency, Louis-Philippe}, citeulike-article-id = {1610605}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11821830_2}, doi = {10.1007/11821830_2}, journal = {Intelligent Virtual Agents}, keywords = {virtual\_rapport}, pages = {14--27}, posted-at = {2007-12-22 10:47:23}, priority = {2}, title = {Virtual Rapport}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11821830_2}, year = {2006} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1610605 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1610605 N2 - Effective face-to-face conversations are highly interactive. Participants respond to each other, engaging in nonconscious behavioral mimicry and backchanneling feedback. Such behaviors produce a subjective sense of rapport and are correlated with effective communication, greater liking and trust, and greater influence between participants. Creating rapport requires a tight sense-act loop that has been traditionally lacking in embodied conversational agents. Here we describe a system, based on psycholinguistic theory, designed to create a sense of rapport between a human speaker and virtual human listener. We provide empirical evidence that it increases speaker fluency and engagement. JF - Intelligent Virtual Agents EP - 27 TI - Virtual Rapport SP - 14 KW - virtual_rapport AU - Gratch, Jonathan AU - Okhmatovskaia, Anna AU - Lamothe, Francois AU - Marsella, Stacy AU - Morales, Mathieu AU - van der Werf, R AU - Morency, Louis-Philippe PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11821830_2 ER -