Can We Assign Attitudes to a Computer Based on Its Beeps? Toward an Effective Method for Making Humans Empathize with Artificial Agents
Abstract
Can we assign attitudes to a computer based on its beeps? If so, which kinds of beeps are perceived as specific attitudes, such as disagreement, hesitation or agreement? To examine this issue, I carried out an experiment to observe how participants perceive or assign an attitude to a computer according to beeps of different durations and F0 contour's slopes. The results revealed that 1) beeps with increasing intonation regardless of duration were perceived by participants as disagreement, 2) flat sounds with longer duration were interpreted as hesitation, and 3) decreasing intonations with shorter duration were as agreement.
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Komatsu. "Can We Assign Attitudes to a Computer Based on Its Beeps? Toward an Effective Method for Making Humans Empathize with Artificial Agents." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.Markdown
[Komatsu. "Can We Assign Attitudes to a Computer Based on Its Beeps? Toward an Effective Method for Making Humans Empathize with Artificial Agents." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2005/komatsu2005ijcai-we/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{komatsu2005ijcai-we,
title = {{Can We Assign Attitudes to a Computer Based on Its Beeps? Toward an Effective Method for Making Humans Empathize with Artificial Agents}},
author = {Komatsu, Takanori},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2005},
pages = {1692-1693},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2005/komatsu2005ijcai-we/}
}