Exploring user experience and performance of a tedious task through human-agent relationship.

ABSTRACT: Positive human-agent relationships can effectively improve human experience and performance in human-machine systems or environments. The characteristics of agents that enhance this relationship have garnered attention in human-agent or human-robot interactions. In this study, based on the rule of the persona effect, we study the effect of an agent's social cues on human-agent relationships and human performance. We constructed a tedious task in an immersive virtual environment, designing virtual partners with varying levels of human likeness and responsiveness. Human likeness encompassed appearance, sound, and behavior, while responsiveness referred to the way agents responded to humans. Based on the constructed environment, we present two studies to explore the effects of an agent's huma

SUBMITTER: Zhou C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9944929 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature