Interactive Narration with a Child: Avatar versus Human in Video-Conference

Alexandre Pauchet (1, 2) , Ovidiu S Erban , Mélodie Ruinet , Adeline Richard , Mukesh Barange , Ovidiu Şerban (3) , Emilie Chanoni (4)

1 INSA Rouen Normandie - Institut national des sciences appliquées Rouen Normandie
2 MIND - LITIS - Equipe Multi-agent, Interaction, Décision
3 LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes
4 PSY-NCA - Psychologie et Neurosciences de la Cognition et de l'affectivité

This article reviews a part of the data collected in a "Wizard-of-Oz" environment, where children interact with a virtual character in a narrative setup. The experiment compares children's engagement depending on the narrator type: either a piloted virtual character or a human in video-conference. The results show that engagement exists, but the modality of the interaction feedback varies in the two contexts.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Artificial Intelligence [cs.AI]; Computer Science [cs]; Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]; Computer Science [cs]; Multiagent Systems [cs.MA]

Alexandre Pauchet, Ovidiu S Erban, Mélodie Ruinet, Adeline Richard, Mukesh Barange, et al.. Interactive Narration with a Child: Avatar versus Human in Video-Conference. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), 2017, Stockholm, Sweden. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_44⟩. ⟨hal-02123276⟩