This study explored associations between the personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with either a virtual agent or a real human. The animated graphical agent, the Responsive Agent, responded to real human subjects’' storytelling behavior, using appropriately timed nonverbal (contingent) feedback. Interactants’' personal-Words. The results reveale...

Rapport has been identified as an important function of human interaction, but to our knowledge no model exists of building and maintaining rapport between humans and conversational agents over the long-term that operates at the level of the dyad. In this paper we leverage existing literature and a corpus of peer tutoring data to develop a framework able to explain how humans in dyadic interact...

Research show that teacher’s nonverbal immediacy can have a positive impact on student’s cognitive learning and affect [31]. This paper investigates the effectiveness of nonverbal immediacy using a virtual human. The virtual human attempts to use immediacy feedback to create rapport with the learner. Results show that the virtual human established rapport with learners but did not help them ach...

Rapport plays an important role during communication because it can help people understand each other’s feelings or ideas and leads to a smooth communication. Computational rapport model has been proposed based on theory in [36]. But there lacks solid verification. In this paper, we apply structural equation model (SEM) to the theoretical model on both dyads of friend and stranger. The results ...

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This paper describes research on automatically building rapport. This is done by adapting responses in a spoken dialog system to users’ emotions as inferred from nonverbal voice properties. Emotions and their acoustic correlates will be extracted from a persuasive dialog corpus and will be used to implement an emotionally intelligent dialog system; one that can recognize emotion, choose an opti...

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There has been a gradual evolution of the important construct of transference from ancient to modern times. Long before Franz Anton Mesmer, there were philosophers, theorists, and health professionals who emphasized the impact of interpersonal relationships on well-being and illness. While basically conceptualizing animal magnetism as a dynamic physical fluid, Mesmer was also aware of the impac...

This report presents the study of algorithms whose goal is to determine whether two Datalog programs are equivalent. Datalog is a query language used over deductive databases. Datalog is a fragment of Prolog, and consists in Horn clauses without function symbols. In general, it is undecidable whether two given Datalog programs are equivalent one to each other; however, this problem becomes deci...