Timothy Bickmore|Daniel Schulman|Langxuan Yin
MAINTAINING ENGAGEMENT IN LONG-TERM INTERVENTIONS WITH RELATIONAL AGENTS
Northeastern University|Northeastern University|Northeastern University
discuss issues designing virtual humans applications require longterm voluntary use problem maintaining engagement users time concepts theories related engagement variety disciplines reviewed describe platform conducting studies longterm interactions humans virtual agents present results two longitudinal randomized controlled experiments effect manipulations agent behavior user engagement assessed