Developing a Scale for Measuring the Believability of Virtual Agents

dc.contributor.authorGuo, Siqien_US
dc.contributor.authorAdamo, Nicolettaen_US
dc.contributor.authorMousas, Christosen_US
dc.contributor.editorJean-Marie Normanden_US
dc.contributor.editorMaki Sugimotoen_US
dc.contributor.editorVeronica Sundstedten_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-04T15:43:17Z
dc.date.available2023-12-04T15:43:17Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractCreating believable virtual agents has long been the focus of artists and scientists. A believable agent enables the audience to be emotionally involved in a narrative, willingly suspending their disbelief for the pleasure of appreciating literacy, drama, film, etc. In the past few decades, believability has become the goal of virtual reality developers and researchers. In the realm of virtual reality, it is commonly accepted that a believable virtual agent should have personality, emotion, agency, intelligence, and more. Despite its seemingly complicated requirements, believability is a fragile product that can be easily jeopardized by missing one or more of these elements. In this paper, we review the questionnaires that past researchers have used on the topic of virtual agents' believability. Based on the prevailing questions identified in the relevant studies, we propose a scale-aiming at standardizing one-for measuring the believability of virtual agents. We recommend that future research involving virtual agents refer to this scale to evaluate the level of their believability.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersAvatars and Virtual Agents
dc.description.seriesinformationICAT-EGVE 2023 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/egve.20231312
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-03868-218-9
dc.identifier.issn1727-530X
dc.identifier.pages45-52
dc.identifier.pages8 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2312/egve.20231312
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.2312/egve20231312
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International License
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCCS Concepts: Human-centered computing → Virtual reality; User studies
dc.subjectHuman
dc.subjectcentered computing → Virtual reality
dc.subjectUser studies
dc.titleDeveloping a Scale for Measuring the Believability of Virtual Agentsen_US
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