Can Social Agents elicit Shame as Humans do?
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Schneeberger, Tanja; Scholtes, Mirella; Hilpert, Bernhard; Langer, Markus; Gebhard, Patrick
- Source
- 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), 2019 8th International Conference on. :164-170 Sep, 2019
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Interviews
Training
Psychology
Humanoid robots
Games
Atmospheric measurements
Social Agents
Emotions
Shame
Job Interview Training
Experiment
- Language
- ISSN
- 2156-8111
This paper presents a study that examines whether social agents can elicit the social emotion shame as humans do. For that, we use job interviews, which are highly evaluative situations per se. We vary the interview style (shame-eliciting vs. neutral) and the job interviewer (human vs. social agent). Our dependent variables include observational data regarding the social signals of shame and shame regulation as well as self-assessment questionnaires regarding the felt uneasiness and discomfort in the situation. Our results indicate that social agents can elicit shame to the same amount as humans. This gives insights about the impact of social agents on users and the emotional connection between them.