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Interface agents have the potential to be catalysts and orchestrators of human-human social interaction. To excel at this, agents must be designed to function well in a busy social environment, reacting to and conveying the kinds of primarily nonverbal social cues that help create and maintain the flow of social exchange.
This paper sets context for the sorts of cues that are important to track and to convey, and briefly describes two projects that incorporated such cues in agents that attempt to help the flow of human-human social interaction.
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Isbister, K. (2002). Party Hosts and Tour Guides. In: Dautenhahn, K., Bond, A., Cañamero, L., Edmonds, B. (eds) Socially Intelligent Agents. Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organizations, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47373-9_5
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