Our lab members Motoaki Sato (Doctoral student) and Ryoya Ito (Master’s student) presented their research at the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024) held in Glasgow, UK from September 9-12, 2024.

Sato presented his work titled “People Negotiate Better with Emotional Human-Like Virtual Agents than Android Robots,” which investigates how agent embodiment affects negotiation outcomes in human-agent interactions. This collaborative research with researchers from Osaka University, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, and the University of Southern California demonstrates that emotional virtual agents can facilitate more effective negotiations than android robots.

Ito presented his research titled “Emotional Expression Help Regulate the Appropriate level of Cooperation with Agents,” exploring how emotional expressions from artificial agents can modulate human cooperation behaviors. This work, conducted in collaboration with researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Southern California, advances our understanding of emotion’s role in human-agent cooperation.

 

Papers:

Sato, M., Uchida, T., Yoshikawa, Y., de Melo, C. M., Gratch, J. & Terada, K. (2024, September 17). People Negotiate Better with Emotional Human-Like Virtual Agents than Android Robots. The 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII ’24). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII63134.2024.00015

Ito, R., de Melo, C. M., Gratch, J. & Terada, K. (2024, September 17). Emotional Expression Help Regulate the Appropriate level of Cooperation with Agents. The 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII ’24). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACII63134.2024.00008