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Interactive Narration with a Child: Avatar versus Human in Video-Conference

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2017)

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This article reviews a part of the data collected in a “Wizard-of-Oz” environment, where children interact with a virtual character in a narrative setup. The experiment compares children’s engagement depending on the narrator type: either a piloted virtual character or a human in video-conference. The results show that engagement exists, but the modality of the interaction feedback varies in the two contexts.

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  1. Normandie Univ, INSA Rouen Normandie, LITIS, 76000, Rouen, France

    Alexandre Pauchet, Ovidiu Şerban & Mukesh Barange

  2. Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, PSY-NCA, 76000, Rouen, France

    Mélodie Ruinet, Adeline Richard & Émilie Chanoni

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  1. Alexandre Pauchet
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Correspondence to Alexandre Pauchet , Ovidiu Şerban , Émilie Chanoni or Mukesh Barange .

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jonas Beskow

  2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Christopher Peters

  3. Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ginevra Castellano

  4. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Carol O'Sullivan

  5. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Iolanda Leite

  6. University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

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Pauchet, A., Şerban, O., Ruinet, M., Richard, A., Chanoni, É., Barange, M. (2017). Interactive Narration with a Child: Avatar versus Human in Video-Conference. In: Beskow, J., Peters, C., Castellano, G., O'Sullivan, C., Leite, I., Kopp, S. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67401-8_44

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