A wizard or a fool? Initial Assessment of a Wizard of Oz agent supporting collaborative virtual environments

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Abstract

A popular technique for evaluating envisioned AI agents without committing significant engineering resources to implement such an agent is the Wizard of Oz (WoZ) methodology. Thus far, many of the WoZ studies concerned with the design of conversational agents have been standalone systems for individual participants to interact with. The aim of this work was to determine whether a WoZ conversational agent could be embedded within an existing team-based collaborative virtual environment. In doing so, we uncovered a number of potential challenges in designing such a system which may be valuable for those implementing such a system in the future.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHAI 2022
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 10th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
Place of PublicationNew York, NY
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages299-301
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450393232
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2022
EventInternational Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (10th : 2022) - Christchurch, New Zealand
Duration: 5 Dec 20228 Dec 2022

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (10th : 2022)
Abbreviated titleHAI ’22
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityChristchurch
Period5/12/228/12/22

Keywords

  • conversational agent
  • pilot study
  • virtual environment
  • Wizard of Oz

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