Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters

Johannes Maria Linssen; Mariet Theune; Thomas de Groot

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_25

Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters

Johannes Maria Linssen, Mariet Theune, Thomas de Groot

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Abstract

We present two prototypes of a serious game which is a aimed at raising police officers’ awareness of social stance during street interventions by letting them interact with virtual characters. We discuss the design, implementation and evaluation of a method of feedback on the police officers’ game actions. This method uses thought bubbles to show the cognitive state of virtual characters, using a theory of interpersonal stances. We use thought bubbles (1) to provide direct feedback by showing the agent’s current attitude, and (2) to provide delayed feedback at the start of a new scenario by showing a flashback to the previous scenario, expressing the character’s overall attitude towards the player. We conducted two experiments with students from the Dutch Police Academy and found that our implementations of these forms of feedback did not lead to directly measurable learning gains.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015
Editors	Willem-Paul Brinkman, Joost Broekens, Dirk K.J. Heylen
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	250-259
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-21995-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_25
Publication status	Published - Aug 2015
Event	15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 26 Aug 2015 → 28 Aug 2015 Conference number: 15

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	9238
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015
Abbreviated title	IVA
Country	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	26/08/15 → 28/08/15

Keywords

EWI-26249
METIS-314951
IR-98114

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Linssen, J. M., Theune, M., & de Groot, T. (2015). Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters. In W-P. Brinkman, J. Broekens, & D. K. J. Heylen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015 (pp. 250-259). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9238). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_25

Linssen, Johannes Maria ; Theune, Mariet ; de Groot, Thomas. / Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015. editor / Willem-Paul Brinkman ; Joost Broekens ; Dirk K.J. Heylen. Berlin : Springer, 2015. pp. 250-259 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Linssen, JM, Theune, M & de Groot, T 2015, Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters. in W-P Brinkman, J Broekens & DKJ Heylen (eds), Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9238, Springer, Berlin, pp. 250-259, 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015, Delft, Netherlands, 26/08/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_25

Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters. / Linssen, Johannes Maria; Theune, Mariet; de Groot, Thomas.

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015. ed. / Willem-Paul Brinkman; Joost Broekens; Dirk K.J. Heylen. Berlin : Springer, 2015. p. 250-259 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9238).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Linssen JM, Theune M, de Groot T. Improving social awareness through thought bubbles and flashbacks of virtual characters. In Brinkman W-P, Broekens J, Heylen DKJ, editors, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2015. Berlin: Springer. 2015. p. 250-259. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_25