Ning Wang

TL;DR: It is suggested that contingency matters when it comes to creating rapport and that agent generated behavior was as good as human listeners in creating rapport.

TL;DR: A model of socially intelligent tutorial dialog was developed based on politeness theory, and implemented in an agent interface within an online learning system called virtual factory teaching system, which confirmed the hypothesis that learners tend to respond to pedagogical agents as social actors and suggested that research should focus less on the media in which agents are realized, and place more emphasis on the agent's social intelligence.

TL;DR: This work leverages existing agent algorithms to provide a domain-independent mechanism for robots to automatically generate explanations, and demonstrates that the added explanation capability led to improvement in transparency, trust, and team performance.

TL;DR: Experimental evidence is provided that a simple virtual character that provides positive listening feedback can induce stronger rapport-like effects than face-to-face communication between human partners and can be more engaging to storytellers than speaking to a human audience, as measured by the length of their stories.

TL;DR: In this paper, an interactive social simulation module (2) is presented to provide an interactive environment that requires the user to use the language to communicate with a virtual character (91) to achieve a goal at a controllable difficulty level.