The illusion of agency: The influence of the agency of an artificial agent on its persuasive power

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7284 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 90-99

  Midden, Cees ^a   Ham, Jaap ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agency; Persuasive Power; Persuasive Technology; Social Robotics

Indexed keywords

AGENCY; ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS; FEEDBACK ACTION; PERSUASIVE POWER; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; ROBOT BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL AGENTS; SOCIAL ROBOTICS; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGY; WASHERS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84864711895     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31037-9_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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