Taking Things at Face Value: How Stance Informs Politeness of Virtual Agents
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In this paper, we contend that interpersonal circumplex theories and politeness strategies may be combined to inform the generation of social behaviours for virtual agents. We show how stances from the interpersonal circumplex correspond to certain politeness strategies and present the results of a small pilot study that partially supports our approach. Our goal is to implement this model in a serious game for police training.
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Taking Things at Face Value: How Stance Informs Politeness of Virtual Agents1
How police officers approach and try to reason with civilians and offenders can determine how certain situations are resolved. Due to monetary and time costs, training of such social skills is currently not available to all police officers. To assist in the training curriculum of the Dutch police, we are developing a serious game prototype in which police officers interact with virtual agents t...
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