Com@Viver: Using affective AI agents to encourage prosocial activity

08/10/2020

This study aims to gather information about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents can influence user behaviour, by encouraging empathy and prosocial activity, and gather data regarding players’ choices and stands when dealing with cyberbullying scenarios. By exploring the capabilities of affective and prosocial computing, we changed the way the narrative of Com@Viver is managed throughout the play sessions, and adapted the narrative according to the users actions. Com@Viver is a serious educational game about cyberbullying, developed with the objective of analysing and improving bystander behaviour. The game, coupled with AI, aims to create believable cyberbullying scenarios where users play as the bystander. Bystanders play a major role in cyberbullying incidents, heavily impacting the outcome of these events depending on how they react to them, and AI has proved itself as being of great aid when dealing with psychological trauma and harmful behaviours. Com@Viver specifically targets teenagers, since these are typically the main victims and witnesses of cyberbullying incidents. Finally, we analysed the results with the data gathered from the play sessions, to conclude about the impact that our game had in the experience. The game showed positive results in changing player behaviour and increasing player self-efficacy beliefs through the usage of AI Agents.

Autores da comunidade :

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  Diogo Miguel Pimpista Antunes

  ist182020

Orientadores desta instituição:

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  Ana Paiva

  ist12371

electrical-engineering-electronic-engineering-information-engineering - Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

eng - Inglês

Instituto Superior Técnico