Expressions That Talk About Themselves

Expressions That Talk About Themselves

People Like Virtual Counselors That Highly-Disclose About Themselves

In this paper, we describe our findings from research designed to explore the effect of self-disclosure between virtual human counselors (interviewers) and human users (interviewees) on users' social responses in counseling sessions. To investigate this subject, we designed an experiment involving three conditions of self-disclosure: high-disclosure, low-disclosure, and non-disclosure. We measu...

Socially Anxious People Reveal More Personal Information with Virtual Counselors That Talk about Themselves using Intimate Human Back Stories

In this paper, we describe our findings from research designed to explore the effect of virtual human counselors' self-disclosure using intimate human back stories on real human clients' social responses in psychological counseling sessions. To investigate this subject, we designed an experiment involving two conditions of the counselors' self-disclosure: human back stories and computer back st...

Programs that Model Themselves

Work on reeection has frequently concentrated on programming languages and operating systems. This work either involves the use of tower reeection or meta-object protocols. The subject of this paper is a diierent form of reeection that is, we believe, more powerful and fundamental than the other kinds. Self modelling is a process that has not received attention in the literature; indeed, we bel...

Agents That Model Themselves

In this paper, we adopt a symbolic interactionist perspective on Multi-Agent Systems. We investigate the uses and genesis of agent models, both Self and acquaintance models and argue that the symbolic interactionist view is superior to the ad hoc, static and somewhat low-level approach adopted at present. We consider agent models|both Self and acquaintance models|as devices for making predictio...