Psychological evaluation of a group communication activation robot in a party game

Matsuyama, Yoichi; Fujie, Shinya; Taniyama, Hikaru; Kobayashi, Tetsuo

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2010-56

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“…Matsuyama et al [11] developed a multiparty quiz-game-type facilitation system for elderly. Another study reported the effectiveness of the existence of a robot in quiz-type group in terms of communication activation [12]. Sidner et al [13] focused on engagement, a key factor to determine level of interaction among participants in conversation, which is defined as "the process by which two (or more) participants establish, maintain and end their perceived connection during interactions they jointly undertake".…”

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Twitter Gamifies the Conversation

Nguyen

Magnani

Kennedy

2023

MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

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Twitter makes conversation into something like a game. It scores our communication, giving us vivid and quantified feedback, via Likes, Retweets, and Follower counts. But this gamification doesn't just increase our motivation to communicate; it changes the very nature of the activity. Games are more satisfying than ordinary life precisely because game goals are simpler, cleaner, and easier to apply. Twitter is thrilling precisely because its goals have been artificially clarified and narrowed. When we buy into Twitter's gamification, our values shift from the complex and pluralistic values of communication to the narrower quest for popularity and virality. Twitter's gamification, thus, involves instrumentalizing our ends for hedonistic reasons. We have shifted our aims in an activity, not because the new aims are more valuable, but in exchange for extra pleasure.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Twitter Gamifies the Conversation

Nguyen

Magnani

Kennedy

2023

MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

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“…In the previous studies, robots have been used to assist group conversations in literature. In [8,9], a robot participated in a "Nandoku" game in an elder care center. Its result showed that the number of participant's responses and smiles are increased.…”

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A Robot Presenting Reproduced Stories among Older Adults in Group Conversation

Yamaguchi

Nergui

Otake

2014

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Group conversation, one form of social activities, plays main roles to train and rehabilitate cognitive function as well as improve emotional states in older adults. It has been mainly utilized for healthy older adults. This paper proposes a robot that warms up group conversations of older adults by reusing or repeating speech statements, which are played successfully to activate group conversations of older adults previously. A novel group conversation technique called the "coimagination" method for preventing mild cognitive impairments and dementia, was used for collecting and reusing conversation data. Two types of group conversation experiments were conducted among older adults. 1) All participants who were human in coimagination sessions, present their original stories with pictures according to selected topic. 2) One of participants in coimagination sessions was a robot, which presents the reproduced interesting stories. These reproduced stories were collected and implemented into the robot in advance. We analyzed the data by the frequency of evoked laughter in each topic and in all participants. The reproduced stories presented by the robot created more laughter than the original stories presented by human. The robot successfully elicited more laughter than the human participants. Based on these results, we found that the robot successfully enlivened group conversation through evoking laughter.

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