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We suggest a research framework to evaluate users’ perceived credibility when they interact with an ESA. Our research framework only addresses ESA’s nonverbal features, thus we do not take the content and the rhetorical arguments of the message delivered by ESAs into account.
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Tajariol, F., Maffiolo, V., Breton, G. (2008). “I Would Like to Trust It but” Perceived Credibility of Embodied Social Agents: A Proposal for a Research Framework. In: Prendinger, H., Lester, J., Ishizuka, M. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85483-8_81
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