<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">[Apologies for cross-posting]</p><p style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px"><br></p><p style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:14px">Dear colleagues,</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Interested?</p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word">Join the Open Science Framework: go to <a href="https://osf.io/6duf7/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration:none;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word">https://osf.io/6duf7/</a> (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).</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word">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.</p></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word">Contact Information. Please make sure that you fill in your profile especially your affiliation (you can always edit it later).</p></li></ol><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Already participating…</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Annika Silvervarg, Linköping University</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Bálint Molnár, University of Budapest</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Barbara Kuhnert, University of Freiburg</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Benjamin Cowan, University College Dublin</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Catherine Pelachaud, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Catholijn Jonker, Delft University of Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Chris Martens</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Christine Lisetti, Florida International University</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Deborah Richards, Macquarie University: Sydney, New South Wales</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Ding Ding, Delft University of Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Dorina Rajanen, University of Oulu</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Emer Gilmartin, Trinity College Dublin</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Evalien Heyselaar, Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Felix Lindner, University of Freiburg</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Frances Brazier, Delft University of Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Francisco J. Rodriguez Lera, University of Leon</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Frank Foerster, University of Hertfordshire</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">František Kalvas, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Franziska Burger, Delft University of Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Gale Lucas, USC Institute for Creative Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Jaap Ham, Eindhoven University of Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Jacob Browne, Twickle, San Diego</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Jay Morgan, Swansea University</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Jeroen Linssen, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Enschede</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Kangsoo Kim, University of Central Florida</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Kim Baraka, Carnegie Mellon University</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Laura Hoffmann, Bielefeld University</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Laura Wächter</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Leigh Clark, University College Dublin</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Marion Koelle, University of Oldenburg</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Mathieu Chollet, University of Glasgow</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Merijn Bruijnes, University of Twente</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Mirjam de Haas</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Mojgan Hashemian, INESC-ID, Lisbon</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Muhammad Yasir</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Myrthe Tielman, Delft University of Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Nahal Norouzi, University of Central Florida</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Özge Nilay Yalçın, Simon Fraser University - Vancouver</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Rianne van den Berghe, Utrecht University</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Salam Daher, University of Central Florida</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Siska Fitrianie, Delft University of Technology</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Tibor Bosse, Radboud University Nijmegen</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Ulysses Bernardet, Aston University, Birmingham</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:14px">Wang Lun</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;word-break:break-word;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;fon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