Virtual agent

Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots

Ana Paiva, Iolanda Leite, Hana Boukricha, Ipke Wachsmuth

Citations: 342 • 2017

Towards prosocial design: A scoping review of the use of robots and virtual agents to trigger prosocial behaviour

Raquel Oliveira, Patrí­cia Arriaga, Fernando P. Santos, Samuel Mascarenhas, Ana Paiva

Citations: 98 • 2020

Creating New Technologies for Companionable Agents to Support Isolated Older Adults

Candace L. Sidner, Timothy Bickmore, Bahador Nooraie, Charles Rich, Lazlo Ring, Mahni Shayganfar, Laura Vardoulakis

Citations: 90 • 2018

Physical vs. Virtual Agent Embodiment and Effects on Social Interaction

Sam Thellman, Annika Silvervarg, Agneta Gulz, Tom Ziemke

Citations: 70 • 2016

Embodied Robot versus Virtual Agent: Involvement of Preschool Children in Motor Task Performance

Marina Fridin, Mark Belokopytov

Citations: 67 • 2014

Introduction to Socially Interactive Agents

Birgit Lugrin

Citations: 64 • 2021

How to Touch Humans: Guidelines for Social Agents and Robots That Can Touch

Jan B. F. van Erp

Citations: 61 • 2013

Role of embodiment and presence in human perception of robots’ facial cues

Ali Mollahosseini, Hojjat Abdollahi, Timothy D. Sweeny, Ron Cole, Mohammad H. Mahoor

Citations: 55 • 2018

Intersubjectivity in human–agent interaction

Justine Cassell, Andrea Tartaro

Citations: 42 • 2007

”Why Can’t We Be Friends?” An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction

Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, André Pereira, Carlos Martinho, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva

Citations: 41 • 2010

Generating Robot/Agent backchannels during a storytelling experiment

Samer Al Moubayed, Malek Baklouti, Mohamed Chétouani, Thierry Dutoit, Ammar Mahdhaoui, Jean‐Claude Martin, Catherine Pélachaud, Jérôme Urbain, M. Akın Yılmaz

Citations: 34 • 2009

Rapport Between Humans and Socially Interactive Agents

Jonathan Gratch, Gale Lucas

Citations: 31 • 2021

Engagement Perception and Generation for Social Robots and Virtual Agents

Lee J. Corrigan, Christopher Peters, Dennis Küster, Ginevra Castellano

Citations: 28 • 2016

Multimodal Behavior Modeling for Socially Interactive Agents

Catherine Pélachaud, Carlos Busso, Dirk Heylen

Citations: 23 • 2021

Health-Related Applications of Socially Interactive Agents

Timothy Bickmore

Citations: 23 • 2022

Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller

Leena Mathur, Micol Spitale, Hao Xi, Jieyun Li, Maja J. Matarić

Citations: 23 • 2021

FAtiMA Toolkit: Toward an Accessible Tool for the Development of Socio-emotional Agents

Samuel Mascarenhas, Manuel Guimarães, Rui Prada, Pedro A. Santos, João Dias, Ana Paiva

Citations: 20 • 2022

Public displays of affect

Timothy Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Daniel Schulman, Sepalika Perera, Chaamari Senanayake, Ishraque Nazmi

Citations: 20 • 2008

Influence of Anthropomorphic Agent on Human Empathy Through Games

Takahiro Tsumura, Seiji Yamada

Citations: 19 • 2023

Who Is to Blame? The Appearance of Virtual Agents and the Attribution of Perceived Responsibility

Tetsuya Matsui, Atsushi Koike

Citations: 19 • 2021