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Shyness Level and Sensitivity to Gaze from Agents - Are Shy People Sensitive to Agent’s Gaze?

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This paper reports how shy people perceive different amount of gaze from a virtual agent and how their perception of the gaze affects comfortableness of the interaction. Our preliminary results indicate shy people are sensitive to even a very low amounts of gaze from the agent. However, contrary to our expectations, as the amounts of gaze from the agent increases, shy people had more favorable impression toward the agent, and they did not perceive the adequate amount of gaze as most comfortable.

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This research is supported by JSPS KAKENHI JP26330236.

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  1. Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan

    Tomoko Koda, Masaki Ogura & Yu Matsui

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    David Traum

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William Swartout

  3. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  4. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Stefan Scherer

  6. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Anton Leuski

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Koda, T., Ogura, M., Matsui, Y. (2016). Shyness Level and Sensitivity to Gaze from Agents - Are Shy People Sensitive to Agent’s Gaze?. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_33

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