[agents] [online workgroup] Call for participation in the development of an evaluation Instrument for social agents

[Siska Fitrianie]

[Apologies for cross-posting]


Dear colleagues,

Our vision is to create a validated standardised questionnaire instrument
to evaluate human interaction with a social agent. This instrument will
help researchers to make claims about people’s perceptions, attitude and
beliefs towards their agent. It will allow agents to be compared across
user studies, and importantly, it helps in replicating our scientific
findings. This is essential for the community if we want to make valid
claims about the impact that our social agents can have in domains such as
health, entertainment, and education.

We have set up an online project at Open Science Framework (OSF), and we
are now looking for more researchers interested in participating in the
developing this instrument. We are explicitly looking for researchers with
a background in conducting user studies with social agents such as
intelligent virtual agents, social robots, and conversational agents.

As we all have busy schedules, individual participation can vary, including
providing comments and advise about setting up the instrument, what
constructs should be measures, which items to include, pilot testing the
instrument, creating a norm database of evaluated agents, and also
participating in the writing of scientific papers about the instruments.

What is in it for you? You will end up with a standardised questionnaire to
evaluate your social agent and compare it with other agents.

Interested?

   1.

   Join the Open Science Framework: go to https://osf.io/6duf7/ (optionally
   sign in to the OSF and click ‘request access’. We have developed an OSF
   project under title: Workgroup on Evaluation Instrument or once register
   click again on the link in this email).
   2.

   Method of Communication. As soon as you are assigned to be one of the
   contributors, you will have the ‘read and write’ right on the OSF project.
   Please feel free to add and update the Wikis, the components and the tags,
   and give a lot of ‘Comments’ to each of them.
   3.

   Contact Information. Please make sure that you fill in your profile
   especially your affiliation (you can always edit it later).

Already participating…

Annika Silvervarg, Linköping University

Bálint Molnár, University of Budapest

Barbara Kuhnert, University of Freiburg

Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin

Catherine Pelachaud, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris

Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology

Chris Martens

Christine Lisetti, Florida International University

Deborah Richards, Macquarie University: Sydney, New South Wales

Ding Ding, Delft University of Technology

Dorina Rajanen, University of Oulu

Emer Gilmartin, Trinity College Dublin

Evalien Heyselaar, Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University

Felix Lindner, University of Freiburg

Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology

Francisco J. Rodriguez Lera, University of Leon

Frank Foerster, University of Hertfordshire

František Kalvas, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen

Franziska Burger, Delft University of Technology

Gale Lucas, USC Institute for Creative Technology

Jaap Ham, Eindhoven University of Technology

Jacob Browne, Twickle, San Diego

Jay Morgan, Swansea University

Jeroen Linssen, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Enschede

Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida

Kim Baraka, Carnegie Mellon University

Laura Hoffmann, Bielefeld University

Laura Wächter

Leigh Clark, University College Dublin

Marion Koelle, University of Oldenburg

Mathieu Chollet, University of Glasgow

Merijn Bruijnes, University of Twente

Mirjam de Haas

Mojgan Hashemian, INESC-ID, Lisbon

Muhammad Yasir

Myrthe Tielman, Delft University of Technology

Nahal Norouzi, University of Central Florida

Özge Nilay Yalçın, Simon Fraser University - Vancouver

Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
Stockholm

Rianne van den Berghe, Utrecht University

Salam Daher, University of Central Florida

Siska Fitrianie, Delft University of Technology

Tibor Bosse, Radboud University Nijmegen

Ulysses Bernardet, Aston University, Birmingham

Wang Lun

Willem-Paul Brinkman, Delft University of Technology


Kind regards,

Siska Fitrianie

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Dr. Ir. Siska Fitrianie, PDEng. S.T.
PostDoc Researcher
Department of Intelligent Systems | Interactive Intelligence Group
Building 28,
Delft University of Technology
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6
2628 XE Delft
The Netherlands
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