A Virtual Agent That is Equipped With Internal Movable Weights for Enhanced Credibility
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kawahara, Ayumu; Noguchi, Yohei; Tanaka, Fumihide
- Source
- 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on. :844-846 Mar, 2022
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Visualization
Avatars
Haptic interfaces
Robots
virtual agent
movable weights
haptic device
trustworthiness
credibility
social robot
- Language
When interacting with humans, virtual agents use both visual and auditory information. We developed a device that can present the facial expressions of a virtual agent together with providing tactile information from the movement of internal weights. Using this device, we conducted a pilot test to investigate how the trustworthiness of the virtual agent changed when the haptic information from the movement of the internal weights was added to the expression of the virtual agent.