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Influence of anthropomorphic agent on human empathy through games
Takahiro Tsumura, Seiji Yamada
The social acceptance of AI agents, including intelligent virtual agents and physical robots, is becoming more important for the integration of AI into human society. Although the…
Agents facilitate one category of human empathy through task difficulty
Takahiro Tsumura, Seiji Yamada
One way to improve the relationship between humans and anthropomorphic agents is to have humans empathize with the agents. In this study, we focused on a task between agents and hu…
Influence of perspective taking through robotic virtual agents on prosocial behavior
Chenlin Hang, Tetsuo Ono, Seiji Yamada
Perspective taking, which allows people to imagine another's thinking and goals, is known to be an effective method for promoting prosocial behaviors in human-computer interactions…
Experimental Investigation of Trust in Anthropomorphic Agents as Task Partners
Akihiro Maehigashi, Takahiro Tsumura, Seiji Yamada
This study investigated whether human trust in a social robot with anthropomorphic physicality is similar to that in an AI agent or in a human in order to clarify how anthropomorph…
AI-Assisted Design Concept Exploration Through Character Space Construction
Shin Sano, Seiji Yamada
We propose an AI-assisted design concept exploration tool, the "Character Space Construction" ("CSC"). Concept designers explore and articulate the target product aesthetics and se…
D-Graph: AI-Assisted Design Concept Exploration Graph
Shin Sano, Seiji Yamada
We present an AI-assisted search tool, the "Design Concept Exploration Graph" ("D-Graph"). It assists automotive designers in creating an original design-concept phrase, that is, a…