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High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development

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Conversational modeling requires an extended time commitment, and the difficulty associated with capturing the wide range of conversational stimuli necessitates extended user participation. We propose the use of leaderboards, narratives and deadlines as motivation strategies to persuade user participation in the conversational modeling for virtual humans. We evaluate the applicability of leaderboards, narratives and deadlines through a user study conducted with medical students (n=20) for modeling the conversational corpus of a virtual patient character. Leaderboards, narratives and deadlines were observed to be effective in improving user participation. Incorporating these strategies had the additional effect of making user responses less reflective of real world conversations.

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  • Virtual Humans
  • Intelligent Agent Authoring Tools
  • motivational strategies
  • persuasive technology
  • virtual patients
  • leaderboards
  • narratives
  • deadlines

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  1. Computer Information Sciences Engineering, USA

    Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen & Benjamin Lok

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Florida, USA

    Juan Cendan

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  1. Department of Comupter Science, George Mason University, 22030, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Jan Allbeck

  2. University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6389, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Norman Badler

  3. College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Timothy Bickmore

  4. CNRS-LTCI, Institut Télécom - Télécom ParisTech, 75014, Paris, France

    Catherine Pelachaud

  5. Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 19104-6389, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Alla Safonova

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Halan, S., Rossen, B., Cendan, J., Lok, B. (2010). High Score! - Motivation Strategies for User Participation in Virtual Human Development. In: Allbeck, J., Badler, N., Bickmore, T., Pelachaud, C., Safonova, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6356. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_52

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