@inproceedings{41d93f667b6245169c5da500b67f06e6,
title = "Effects of social priming on social presence with intelligent virtual agents",
abstract = "This paper explores whether witnessing an Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) in what appears to be a socially engaging discussion with a Confederate Virtual Agent (CVA) prior to a direct interaction, can prime a person to feel and behave more socially engaged with the IVA in a subsequent interaction. To explore this social priming phenomenon, we conducted an experiment in which participants in a control group had no priming while those in an experimental group were briefly exposed to an engaging social interaction between an IVA and a nearby CVA (i.e. a virtual actor). The participants primed by exposure to the brief CVA-IVA interaction reported being significantly more excited and alert, perceiving the IVA as more responsive, and showed significantly higher measures of Co-Presence, Attentional Allocation, and Message Understanding dimensions of social presence for the IVA, compared to those who were not primed.",
keywords = "Co-presence, Social presence, Social priming, Virtual agent, Virtual human",
author = "Salam Daher and Kangsoo Kim and Myungho Lee and Ryan Schubert and Gerd Bruder and Jeremy Bailenson and Greg Welch",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.; 17th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2017 ; Conference date: 27-08-2017 Through 30-08-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_10",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319674001",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "87--100",
editor = "Carol O'Sullivan and Ginevra Castellano and Stefan Kopp and Jonas Beskow and Christopher Peters and Iolanda Leite",
booktitle = "Intelligent Virtual Agents - 17th International Conference, IVA 2017, Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
}