Making (Virtual) Friends and Influencing (Virtual) People
Justine Cassell
Media Technology & Society
Northwestern University, Chicago
Freitag, 15.07.2005, 11 Uhr c.t., W0-135
Harmony or rapport between people is essential for relationships
as diverse as seller-buyer and teacher-learner. In this talk I describe the
kinds of verbal behaviors -- such as common interactional structures and
narrative resonance -- and non-verbal behaviors-- such as attention,
positivity, and coordination -- that function together to establish a sense
of rapport between two people in conversation. These studies are used as
the basis for the implementation of virtual peers - adults, but also more
recently embodied conversational virtual children who are capable of acting
as friends and learning partners with real children from different ethnic
traditions, collaborating to tell stories from the child's own cultural
context, and aiding children in making the transition between home and
school language.
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