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How Agents Provide Sports Motivation: Impression Ratings of Videos in Sport Climbing

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Daichi Katsura,

Daisuke Sakamoto,

Tetsuo OnoAuthors Info & Claims

HAI '20: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

Pages 254 - 256

https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418752

Published: 10 November 2020 Publication History

Abstract

In sports, studies commonly use agents as coaches or partners for motivation. However, despite the proven positive effect of cheering on athletes? mental state in the field of sports psychology, no studies have examined the effects of agent-based motivation. Hence, we created three scenarios: computer graphics animation (CG) and voice agent cheering,voice agent cheering, and no cheering and conducted experiments under their conditions. The experiment questionnaire results showed that ?CG and voice agent cheering? was more effective in novice participants than no cheering, confirming the former's positive effect on motivation.

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In sports, studies commonly use agents as coaches or partners for motivation. However, despite the proven positive effect of cheering on athletes? mental state in the field of sports psychology, no studies have examined the effects of agent-based motivation. Hence, this study examined the effectiveness of cheering for sport climbing novices by investigating cheering timing and motions. Based on the survey results, we created three scenarios: ?computer graphics animation (CG) and voice agent cheering,? ?voice agent cheering,? and ?no cheering? and conducted under their conditions. The experiment questionnaire results showed that ?CG and voice agent cheering? was more effective in novice participants than ?no cheering,? confirming the former?s positive effect on motivation. On the other hand, no significant differences in the motivation category were found in the three-condition experiment conducted on experts.

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Nishiyama YSezaki K(2021)Experience Sampling Tool for Repetitive Skills Training in Sports using Voice User InterfaceAdjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3460418.3479283(54-55)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460418.3479283

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How Agents Provide Sports Motivation: Impression Ratings of Videos in Sport Climbing
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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HAI '20: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

November 2020

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DOI:10.1145/3406499

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Mohammad Obaid
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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Western Sydney University, Australia
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The University of Tokyo, Japan
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University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
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Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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Nishiyama YSezaki K(2021)Experience Sampling Tool for Repetitive Skills Training in Sports using Voice User InterfaceAdjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3460418.3479283(54-55)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2021
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