Evaluating the Believability of the Lilobot Conversational Agent: A Bachelor Thesis

The aim of this research is to evaluate the believability of Lilobot, a conversational agent meant to act as a virtual child for training helpline workers. Numerous aspects of believability are explored by means of a user study involving a questionnaire and interview with 10 participants. Questionnaire results indicate that improvement to the...

The role of eye gaze in virtual characters on their perceived believability, social presence and the application of Theory of Mind

Making virtual characters seem sentient is the main goal of the study of believable virtual characters. Unbelievable behaviour, especially eye gaze behaviour, could make the whole virtual character seem less believable. In human-human social interactions eye gaze is used to interact non-verbally. People also apply Theory of Mind (ToM) to reason...