Title :
The utilization of character agents as an avatar and navigator in discussion on network and its effectiveness
Author :
Ito, Kyoto ; Kozuki, Masanori ; Matsui, Koji ; Yoshikawa, Hidekazu
Author_Institution :
Kyoto Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Character agents were introduced to navigate users and to provoke the utterance in a community on the Internet. We had conducted the experiment to research the effectiveness of the character agents with respect to the affinity of a community, and found that the usefulness of the navigator was related to its familiarity to the networked community.
Keywords :
Internet; software agents; Internet; avatar; character agents; community affinity; navigator; network effectiveness; Avatars; Computer displays; Humans; Indium tin oxide; Intelligent agent; Intelligent networks; Intelligent robots; Internet; Navigation; Psychology;
Conference_Titel :
SICE 2002. Proceedings of the 41st SICE Annual Conference
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7631-5
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2002.1196565
