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Improving Human-Like Qualities of Chatbots -Draft

This entry is part 4 of 13 in the series The State of Chatbots

Some researchers are designing chatbots with the intent of integrating more natural human-like interactions (De Angeli & Brahnam, 2008). Specifically, the developer may program certain responses that would sacrifice accuracy, but confer more human-like traits (Sing et al., 2006). For example, if a chatbot is presented with a math problem it could wait, as if [...]

Posted 11 April 2009 † Robert Whetsel § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How do Humans View Chatbots? -Draft

This entry is part 2 of 13 in the series The State of Chatbots

Since chatbots have moved into the public realm, there has been interest in evaluating how users interact with chatbots. For example, after analyzing conversations with the chatbot jabberwacky, one study found that the topics and style of conversations were broad (De Angeli & Brahnam, 2008). Users displayed different attitudes ranging from nice to nasty and [...]

Posted 11 April 2009 † Robert Whetsel § Research ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,