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Tell me more! assessing interactions with social robots from speech

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Laban, Guy, George, Jean-Noël, Morrison, Val, Cross, Emily S.·2020·Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

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Abstract

As social robots are increasingly introduced into health interventions, one potential area where they might prove valuable is in supporting people’s psychological health through conversation. Given the importance of self-disclosure for psychological health, this study assessed the viability of using social robots for eliciting rich disclosures that identify needs and emotional states in human interaction partners. Three within-subject experiments were conducted with participants interacting with another person, a humanoid social robot, and a disembodied conversational agent (voice assistant). We performed a number of objective evaluations of disclosures to these three agents via speech content and voice analyses and also probed participants’ subjective evaluations of their disclosures to three agents. Our findings suggest that participants overall disclose more to humans than artificial agents, that agents’ embodiment influences disclosure quantity and quality, and that people are generally aware of differences in their personal disclosures to three agents studied here. Together, the findings set the stage for further investigation into the psychological underpinnings of self-disclosures to artificial agents and their potential role in eliciting disclosures as part of mental and physical health interventions.

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  • There is some evidence suggesting that when agents provide feedback, users also expect their own feedback to be understood by the agent.

    “There is some evidence suggesting that when agents provide feedback, users also expect their own feedback to be understood by the agent (Sidner et al., 2006; Kontogiorgos et al., 2021; Laban et al., 2021).”

    From Modeling Feedback in Interaction With Conversational Agents—A Review (2022) · cites this paper as Laban et al., 2021

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Authors
Laban, G., George, J.-N., Morrison, V., & Cross, E. S.
Affiliations
  • University of Glasgow (GB)
  • Bangor University (GB)
Corresponding author
Cross, Emily S.
Venue
Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics
Published
2020-12-12
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
136-159
ISSN
  • 2080-9778 (ISSN-L)
  • 2081-4836
OpenAlex
W3113432594
Cited by
81
References
128
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 3
FWCI
12.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
  • ETH Zürich Research Collection
Funders
  • Leverhulme Trust (PLP-2018-152)
  • European Commission (814072, HORIZON2020)
  • H2020 European Research Council (677270)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
Keywords
social robots, self-disclosure, human-robot interaction, voice assistants, humanoid robots, embodiment, emotional state, mental health, speech analysis, health interventions, chatbots

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