Samenvatting
Affect and emotions play a crucial role in any human experience. However, these components are often overlooked in the design of user experiences with virtual AI agents. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of AI agents - in particular virtual assistants, to adapt to users’ emotional states in different interaction scenarios. Currently, AI agents such as Google Home, Alexa, and Siri, support very limited forms of affective interactions, despite showing great potentials for their implementation. This gap reflects the lack of specific theoretical models for affective and empathetic interactions with AI assistants, as well as current technological limitations. In this work, we address the first issues, i.e. the lack of theoretical models, from an experience design perspective. We present the Adaptive Affective Loop, a revised version of the Affective Loop model from social robotics, where we introduce two new concepts. First, the use of distributed interfaces for AI agents, where all IoT elements controlled by the agent can be leveraged to generate affective interactions. Second, the integration of learning and adaptive features, which allow the AI agent to assess the effectiveness of its affective response, and to adapt it over time, in order to generate custom empathetic responses for each user. We apply the model to three interaction scenarios: direct, pre-defined, and indirect interactions with the AI agent. We discuss benefits and limits of our model, and we address the challenges designers will face while envisioning experiences for such new affective scenarios.
Originele taal-2 | Engels |
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Titel | Advances in Information and Communication - Proceedings of the 2021 Future of Information and Communication Conference, FICC |
Redacteuren | Kohei Arai |
Uitgeverij | Springer |
Pagina's | 547-559 |
Aantal pagina's | 13 |
ISBN van geprinte versie | 9783030730994 |
DOI's | |
Status | Gepubliceerd - 2021 |
Evenement | Future of Information and Communication Conference, FICC 2021 - Virtual, Online Duur: 29 apr. 2021 → 30 apr. 2021 |
Publicatie series
Naam | Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing |
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Volume | 1363 AISC |
ISSN van geprinte versie | 2194-5357 |
ISSN van elektronische versie | 2194-5365 |
Congres
Congres | Future of Information and Communication Conference, FICC 2021 |
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Stad | Virtual, Online |
Periode | 29/04/21 → 30/04/21 |
Bibliografische nota
Publisher Copyright:© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.