CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in the Development of an Evaluation Instrument for Social Agents

[Siska Fitrianie - EWI]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in the Development of an Evaluation Instrument for Social Agents

Dear colleagues,

Our vision is to create a validated standardised questionnaire instrument to evaluate human interaction with a social agent. This instrument will help researchers to make claims about people’s perceptions, attitude and beliefs towards their agent. It will allow agents to be compared across user studies, and importantly, it helps in replicating our scientific findings. This is essential for the community if we want to make valid claims about the impact that our social agents can have in domains such as health, entertainment, and education.

We have set up an online project at Open Science Framework (OSF), and we are now looking for more researchers interested in participating in the developing this instrument. We are explicitly looking for researchers with a background in conducting user studies with social agents such as intelligent virtual agents, social robots, and conversational agents.

As we all have busy schedules, individual participation can vary, including providing comments and advise about setting up the instrument, what constructs should be measures, which items to include, pilot testing the instrument, creating a norm database of evaluated agents, and also participating in the writing of scientific papers about the instruments.

What is in it for you? You will end up with a standardised questionnaire to evaluate your social agent and compare it with other agents.

Interested?

  1.  Join the Open Science Framework: go to https://osf.io/6duf7/ (optionally sign in to the OSF and click ‘request access’. We have developed an OSF project under title: Workgroup on Evaluation Instrument or once register click again on the link in this email).

  2.  Method of Communication. As soon as you are assigned to be one of the contributors, you will have the ‘read and write’ right on the OSF project. Please feel free to add and update the Wikis, the components and the tags, and give a lot of ‘Comments’ to each of them.

  3.  Contact Information. Please make sure that you fill in your profile especially your affiliation (you can always edit it later).

Already participating…

Annika Silvervarg, Linköping University

Bálint Molnár, University of Budapest

Barbara Kuhnert, University of Freiburg

Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin

Catherine Pelachaud, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris

Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology

Chris Martens

Deborah Richards, Macquarie University: Sydney, New South Wales

Ding Ding, Delft University of Technology

Emer Gilmartin, Trinity College Dublin

Evalien Heyselaar, Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University

Felix Lindner, University of Freiburg

Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology

Frank Foerster, University of Hertfordshire

Franziska Burger, Delft University of Technology

Gale Lucas, USC Institute for Creative Technology

Jacob Browne, Twickle, San Diego

Jeroen Linssen, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Enschede

Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida

Kim Baraka, Carnegie Mellon University

Leigh Clark, University College Dublin

Marion Koelle, University of Oldenburg

Mathieu Chollet, University of Glasgow

Merijn Bruijnes, University of Twente

Mirjam de Haas

Mojgan Hashemian, INESC-ID, Lisbon

Myrthe Tielman, Delft University of Technology

Nahal Norouzi, University of Central Florida

Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

Rianne van den Berghe, Utrecht University

Salam Daher, University of Central Florida

Siska Fitrianie, Delft University of Technology

Tibor Bosse, Radboud University Nijmegen

Ulysses Bernardet, Aston University, Birmingham

Wang Lun

Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology

Kind regards,
Siska Fitrianie

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Dr. Ir. Siska Fitrianie, PDEng. S.T.
PostDoc Researcher
Department of Intelligent Systems | Interactive Intelligence Group
Building 28,
Delft University of Technology
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
The Netherlands



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