Value-sensitive Evaluation of Hybrid Human-AI Chatbots in Customer Services

The state-of-the-art shows the potential of chatbots and other Machine Learning (ML) models to perform many tasks of high quality. Especially chatbots are already used by many companies to assist their customer service. However, chatbots will likely never be able to perform all tasks perfectly. Therefore, it is still the question whether such a...

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...