People tend to adapt to their conversation partners. In mixed-cultural settings, with a native and a non-native speaker, adaptation can manifest itself in the usage of simplified language or increased usage of non-verbal scaffolding to foster understanding. In this contribution, we address the question whether the phenomenon of AFC (adapted, foreigner-directed communication) is also shown towards a virtual agent. We therefore implemented a demonstrator with a local and a foreign agent that interact with human users in a direction giving scenario. A user study revealed that participants behaved differently towards the two agents and adapted both, their verbal and their non-verbal behaviour. We are thus confident, that our demonstrator is well suited to systematically study AFC.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 lugrin2018adapted
%A Lugrin, Birgit
%A Eckstein, Benjamin
%A Bergmann, Kirsten
%A Heindl, Corinna
%B International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
%D 2018
%K myown
%T Adapted Foreigner-directed Communication towards Virtual Agents
%U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuyGgCD_RbE
%X People tend to adapt to their conversation partners. In mixed-cultural settings, with a native and a non-native speaker, adaptation can manifest itself in the usage of simplified language or increased usage of non-verbal scaffolding to foster understanding. In this contribution, we address the question whether the phenomenon of AFC (adapted, foreigner-directed communication) is also shown towards a virtual agent. We therefore implemented a demonstrator with a local and a foreign agent that interact with human users in a direction giving scenario. A user study revealed that participants behaved differently towards the two agents and adapted both, their verbal and their non-verbal behaviour. We are thus confident, that our demonstrator is well suited to systematically study AFC.
@inproceedings{lugrin2018adapted,
abstract = {People tend to adapt to their conversation partners. In mixed-cultural settings, with a native and a non-native speaker, adaptation can manifest itself in the usage of simplified language or increased usage of non-verbal scaffolding to foster understanding. In this contribution, we address the question whether the phenomenon of AFC (adapted, foreigner-directed communication) is also shown towards a virtual agent. We therefore implemented a demonstrator with a local and a foreign agent that interact with human users in a direction giving scenario. A user study revealed that participants behaved differently towards the two agents and adapted both, their verbal and their non-verbal behaviour. We are thus confident, that our demonstrator is well suited to systematically study AFC.},
added-at = {2018-10-10T14:16:52.000+0200},
author = {Lugrin, Birgit and Eckstein, Benjamin and Bergmann, Kirsten and Heindl, Corinna},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b028cfdeb0543b2aa0bccc857a4ae7de/eckstein},
booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents},
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intrahash = {b028cfdeb0543b2aa0bccc857a4ae7de},
keywords = {myown},
note = {in press},
organization = {Springer},
timestamp = {2018-10-10T14:19:25.000+0200},
title = {Adapted Foreigner-directed Communication towards Virtual Agents},
url = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuyGgCD_RbE},
year = 2018
}