A survey of personality computing

A Vinciarelli, G Mohammadi - IEEE Transactions on Affective …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human
behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect …

Trusting virtual agents: The effect of personality

MX Zhou, G Mark, J Li, H Yang - ACM Transactions on Interactive …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We present artificial intelligent (AI) agents that act as interviewers to engage with a user in a
text-based conversation and automatically infer the user's personality traits. We investigate …

Eliciting and analysing users' envisioned dialogues with perfect voice assistants

ST Völkel, D Buschek, M Eiband, BR Cowan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We present a dialogue elicitation study to assess how users envision conversations with a
perfect voice assistant (VA). In an online survey, N= 205 participants were prompted with …

Automatic personality perception: Prediction of trait attribution based on prosodic features

G Mohammadi, A Vinciarelli - IEEE Transactions on Affective …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Whenever we listen to a voice for the first time, we attribute personality traits to the speaker.
The process takes place in a few seconds and it is spontaneous and unaware. While the …

User perceptions of extraversion in chatbots after repeated use

ST Völkel, R Schoedel, L Kaya, S Mayer - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Whilst imbuing robots and voice assistants with personality has been found to positively
impact user experience, little is known about user perceptions of personality in purely text …

A survey on perceived speaker traits: Personality, likability, pathology, and the first challenge

B Schuller, S Steidl, A Batliner, E Nöth… - Computer speech & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge aimed at a unified test-bed for
perceived speaker traits–the first challenge of this kind: personality in the five OCEAN …

A large-scale user study of an Alexa prize chatbot: Effect of TTS dynamism on perceived quality of social dialog

M Cohn, CY Chen, Z Yu - Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
This study tests the effect of cognitive-emotional expression in an Alexa text-to-speech (TTS)
voice on users' experience with a social dialog system. We systematically introduced …

A survey of human-computer interaction design in science fiction movies

M Schmitz, C Endres, A Butz - 2nd International Conference on INtelligent …, 2010 - eudl.eu
Science Fiction movies have always been a medium for speculation about the future of
technology. The most visible part of technology often is its interaction design, which …

Speech synthesis for the generation of artificial personality

MP Aylett, A Vinciarelli, M Wester - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A synthetic voice personifies the system using it. In this work we examine the impact text
content, voice quality and synthesis system have on the perceived personality of two …

Examining user preference for agreeableness in chatbots

ST Völkel, L Kaya - Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Recent research suggests that deliberately manipulating a chatbot's personality and
matching it to the user's personality can positively impact the user experience. Yet, little is …