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27 April 2006 11:30 - 13:00 Papers Beliefs and Affect Paper Can a virtual cat persuade you? The role of gender and realism in speaker persuasiveness Presents findings revealing how virtual characters are as persuasive as real people and that cross-gender interactions transfer to virtual speakers. Explains how virtual characters can be exploited for persuasive interfaces. Catherine Zanbaka Paper The Sensual Evaluation Instrument: Developing an Affective Evaluation Tool [Best of CHI Nominee] Describes an instrument for collecting real-time self-assessment of affect. Portable, may work across cultures, offers consistency and flexibility. Can help elicit emotional feedback quickly and easily during the design process. Katherine Isbister Note Listening to your inner voices: Facilitating reaction through comprehensive voice notifications Reports on an user study of the notification qualities of voice and the development and deployment of a system exploiting the results. Suggests that voice familiarity is a useful property for notification. Saurabh Bhatia Note Adaptive Language Behavior in HCI: How Expectations and Beliefs about a System Affect Users' Word Choice Experimentally demonstrates that users adapt language behaviors depending on beliefs about the sophistication of a system. Suggests that designers should attend to relevant 'non-functional' system characteristics. Jamie Pearson |
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