[13F] Natural Language, IO Device

[13F-02] Gaining conversation experience from system-generated conversations

○Junya Nakanishi Nakanishi¹, Yoshihiro Sakatani¹, Masataka Okubo¹, Takuya Yamada¹, Shohei Fujii¹, Takahiro Komori¹, Tadashi Nakano¹ (1.Osaka University)

In this work, we divided conversation behavior into verbal and non-verbal behaviors and investigated the importance of these behaviors in interpersonal communication. First, we developed a text-based chat system that allows users to view system-generated conversations. In this system, users can control one’s non-verbal behaviors such as inputting and sending messages but cannot control the contents of conversation. We then used this system to evaluate whether users can gain conversation experience from system-generated conversations. Based on preliminary experimental results, we discuss the possibility of gaining conversation experience from conversations made between any two persons.