Are ECAs More Persuasive than Textual Messages?
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Paper
published in 2009
by Irene Mazzotta, Nicole Novielli and Berardina De Carolis
Embodied
Conversational Agents (ECAs) are commonly accepted as a new metaphor of Human Computer Interaction in several application domains. They are also used with the roles of influence and behavior change. We present an empirical evaluation study to compare the motivational impact of a persuasive message when conveyed by Valentina (a female young character [1]) and when presented through a text. The believability of our agent has been successfully evaluated in our previous research.