{"title":"Influencing robot influence","authors":"Jaap Ham","doi":"10.1075/is.00012.ham","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.00012.ham","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In the near future, robots will function in social roles and attempt to influence the user’s behavior and / or thinking. The current contribution analyses how to influence robot influence: Persuasive robots can be personalized to make them more effective. We present an overview of (1) the user characteristics to which persuasive robots can be personalized, (2) considering the specific current situation of a user; and (3) the robot characteristics that can be personalized. Thereby, we give an overview of how the persuasive robot’s physical appearance, behavior, (perceived) cognition and affect can be influenced to characteristics of the user (personalized) in order to make the robot more persuasive and thereby to understand better how the persuasive power of an embodied artificial social entity can be influenced.","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45752079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What influences influence?","authors":"K. Fischer, Jaap Ham","doi":"10.1075/is.00006.int","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.00006.int","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This special issue addresses how aspects of the communicative situation influence how influential persuasive\u0000 utterances (or other strategies of influence) are in their contexts of use. Specifically, we study the effects of interactional,\u0000 speaker-, addressee- and channel-related factors and of the interpersonal relationship between speaker and hearer, as well as the\u0000 effects of referring to the shared context itself. The papers combined in this special issue provide evidence for the considerable\u0000 impact of the here and now of the interactional context on the persuasiveness of strategies of influence and contribute to our\u0000 understanding of mechanisms of persuasion.","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46495620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tomasz Korbak, Julian Zubek, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Milos, J. Rączaszek-Leonardi
{"title":"Interaction history as a source of compositionality in emergent communication","authors":"Tomasz Korbak, Julian Zubek, Łukasz Kuciński, Piotr Milos, J. Rączaszek-Leonardi","doi":"10.1075/is.21020.kor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.21020.kor","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, we explore interaction history as a particular source of pressure for achieving emergent\u0000 compositional communication in multi-agent systems. We propose a training regime implementing template transfer, the idea of\u0000 carrying over learned biases across contexts. In the presented method, a sender-receiver dyad is first trained with a disentangled\u0000 pair of objectives, and then the receiver is transferred to train a new sender with a standard objective. Unlike other methods\u0000 (e.g. the obverter algorithm), the template transfer approach does not require imposing inductive biases on the architecture of\u0000 the agents. We experimentally show the emergence of compositional communication using topographical similarity, zero-shot\u0000 generalization and context-independence as evaluation metrics. The presented approach is connected to an important line of work in\u0000 semiotics and developmental psycholinguistics: it supports a conjecture that compositional communication is scaffolded on simpler\u0000 communication protocols.","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44334847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What’s to bullying a bot?","authors":"M. Keijsers, C. Bartneck, F. Eyssel","doi":"10.1075/is.20002.kei","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.20002.kei","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In human-chatbot interaction, users casually and regularly offend and abuse the chatbot they are interacting with. The current paper explores the relationship between chatbot humanlikeness on the one hand and sexual advances and verbal aggression by the user on the other hand. 283 conversations between the Cleverbot chatbot and its users were harvested and analysed. Our results showed higher counts of user verbal aggression and sexual comments towards Cleverbot when Cleverbot appeared more humanlike in its behaviour. Caution is warranted with the interpretation of the results however as no experimental manipulation was conducted and causality can thus not be inferred. Nonetheless, the findings are relevant for both the research on the abuse of conversational agents, and the development of efficient approaches to discourage or prevent verbal aggression by chatbot users.","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43786323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special section editorial","authors":"S. Šabanović, Malte F. Jung, Ana Paiva, F. Eyssel","doi":"10.1075/is.00005.sab","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.00005.sab","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43141262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of synchronous robot motion on human synchrony and enjoyment perception","authors":"Alexis Meneses, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Ishiguro","doi":"10.1075/is.18027.men","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18027.men","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Enhancing synchronization among people when synchronization is lacking is believed to improve their social skills,\u0000 learning processes, and proficiency in musical rhythmic development. Greater synchronization among people can be induced to\u0000 improve the rhythmic interaction of a system with multiple dancing robots that dance to a drum beat. A series of experiments were\u0000 conducted to examine the human–human synchrony between persons that participated in musical sessions with robots. In this study,\u0000 we evaluated: (a) the effect of the number of robots on a subject’s ability to synchronize with an experimenter; (b) the effect of\u0000 the type of robot synchrony, namely, whether the robots did or did not represent the subject’s rhythm; (c) the effect of an\u0000 in-sync and out-of-sync robot on a subject’s behavior. We found that: (a) three robots increased the level of synchronization\u0000 between the subject and experimenter and their enjoyment level; (b) robots may induce greater synchronization between the subject\u0000 and experimenter by reproducing the rhythms of not only the experimenter but also of the subject compared to when only the\u0000 experimenter’s rhythms had been reproduced; (c) the robots in-sync had greater influence on the natural rhythm of the subject.","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45241049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laura Mármol, H. Meunier, R. Dolado, F. S. Beltran
{"title":"Testing a procedure to determine spatial proximity in semi-free-ranging macaque groups","authors":"Laura Mármol, H. Meunier, R. Dolado, F. S. Beltran","doi":"10.1075/is.19022.mar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.19022.mar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Individuals’ spatial position is affected by social factors. The majority of studies correlating spatial position and social factors have used methods with drawbacks. A more complete method was developed by Dolado & Beltran (2011) in captive animals. The present study aimed to apply a modified version of this method in two semi-free-ranging macaque groups. The proposed method divides group’s surroundings into different subareas, selecting different points in each subarea and calculating the coordinates of these points. We filmed each group and analyzed the videos using an activated time transition recording to determine the individuals’ coordinates. With these data, we calculated spatial variables, allowing us to obtain groups’ spatial patterns. The current method improves on previous procedures and could be applied to larger study areas and groups than the method of Dolado & Beltran (2011), thus representing a viable option for studying spatial distribution patterns in semi-free-ranging macaque groups.","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42200725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do 12-month-old infants maintain expectations of contingent or non-contingent responding based on prior experiences\u0000 with unfamiliar and familiar adults?","authors":"Gunilla Stenberg","doi":"10.1075/is.18044.ste","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18044.ste","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The current study examined whether infants use previous encounters for maintaining expectations for adults’\u0000 contingent responding. An unfamiliar adult responded contingently or non-contingently to infant signaling during an initial play\u0000 situation and 10 min later presented an ambiguous toy while providing positive information (Experiment 1; forty-two\u0000 12-month-olds). The infants in the contingent group looked more at the adult during toy presentation and played more with the toy\u0000 during the concluding free-play situation than the infants in the non-contingent group. When the parent had responded contingently\u0000 or non-contingently to infant bids (Experiment 2; forty 12-month-olds), the infants in the contingent group tended to look more at\u0000 the parent and tended to play more with the toy than did the infants in the non-contingent group. The results indicate that from\u0000 just a brief exposure, infants form expectations about adults’ responsiveness and maintain these expectations of\u0000 contingent/non-contingent responding from one situation to another.","PeriodicalId":46494,"journal":{"name":"Interaction Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48195779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}