• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.59-70
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• 2018

With the breakthrough of speech recognition technology, conversational agents have become pervasive through smartphones and smart speakers. The recognition accuracy of speech recognition technology has developed to the level of human beings, but it still shows limitations on understanding the underlying meaning or intention of words, or understanding long conversation. Accordingly, the users experience various errors when interacting with the conversational agents, which may negatively affect the user experience. In addition, in the case of smart speakers with a voice as the main interface, the lack of feedback on system and transparency was reported as the main issue when the users using. Therefore, there is a strong need for research on how users can better understand the capability of the conversational agents and mitigate negative emotions in error situations. In this study, we applied social strategies, "forewarning" and "apology", to conversational agent and investigated how these strategies affect users' perceptions of the agent in breakdown situations. For the study, we created a series of demo videos of a user interacting with a conversational agent. After watching the demo videos, the participants were asked to evaluate how they liked and trusted the agent through an online survey. A total of 104 respondents were analyzed and found to be contrary to our expectation based on the literature study. The result showed that forewarning gave a negative impression to the user, especially the reliability of the agent. Also, apology in a breakdown situation did not affect the users' perceptions. In the following in-depth interviews, participants explained that they perceived the smart speaker as a machine rather than a human-like object, and for this reason, the social strategies did not work. These results show that the social strategies should be applied according to the perceptions that user has toward agents.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.104-112
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• 2014

With recent development of virtual reality technology, coupled with the growth of the marine industry, virtual underwater simulation systems are under development in various studies, for educational purposes and to simulate virtual reality experiences. Current literature indicates many underwater simulation systems to date have focused on the quality of visual stimulus delivered through three-dimensional graphics user interface, limiting the reality of the experience. In order to improve the quality of the reality delivered by such virtual simulations, it is crucial to develop multi-sensory technology rather than focus on the conventional audio-visual interaction, which limits experiencer from the sense of underwater immersion and existence within the simulation. This work proposes the immersive multi-sensory effector system, delivering the users with a more realistic underwater experience. The sense of reality perceived was evaluated, as the main factor of the virtual reality system.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02b
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• pp.526-534
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• 2007

사용성의 주관적인 판단기준으로써 재미(Fun)라는 요소는 사용성 지각에 있어 중요한 역할을 할 수 있다는 논의는 제기된 반면 개념자체의 모호성과 객관적인 측정의 어려움으로 인해 실증적인 연구가 많이 이루어지지 못했다. 재미와 관련된 기존의 연구들은 시각적인 요인에만 국한되었다. Shneiderman(2004)은 재미를 설계하기 위한 5가지 fun-feature 중 하나로 만족스러운 소리(satisfying sound)를 제시하였는데, 시각적인 요인 못지않게 청각적인 요소는 인간-컴퓨터 상호작용에서 사용자에게 과제를 적절하게 수행해나가고 있는지에 대한 하나의 피드백으로도 작용할 수 있고, 즐거움을 줄 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 승차권 자동발매기를 중심으로 소리의 유무와 소리의 재미수준이 사용성에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 알아보고자 소리가 없는 조건, 재미없는 소리 조건, 재미있는 소리 조건에 따라 사용성을 다르게 지각할 것이라고 가정하였다. 또한 모형의 사용성 수준이 매개 변인으로 작용할 수 있다고 보고 사용하기 좋은 모형과 좋지 않은 모형 두 가지를 제시하였다. 참가자들은 두 가지 모형에 대해 각각의 소리조건에 따라 과제를 수행하고 모형과 소리 조건에 대해 집단 면접을 실시하였다. 실험 결과 재미있는 소리조건에서는 정답률이 다른 소리 조건들에 비해 더 높았으며 총클릭수는 더 적었다. 면접 결과에서는 좋지 않은 모형에 재미있는 소리는 긍정적으로 인식되지 않음을 발견하였다. 이는 Davis(1992)가 사용성이 뒷받침 되지 않은 상황에서 재미는 긍정적인 요인으로 작용하지 않는다는 주장을 지지한다. 본 연구는 재미의 한 구성 요소인 소리를 통해서 사용성에 있어 재미가 중요한 역할을 할 수 있다는 것과 사용성을 전제하지 않은 것에 있어 재미요소의 적용은 부정적으로 인식될 수 있다는 점을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.61-69
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• 2019

Recently, as a new ICT trend, emerging chatbots are actively introduced in the field of finance. Chatbot conducts services through the interaction of communication with users. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of interaction dialogue type on the efficiency, usability, sensibility and perceived security of financial service chatbot. Based on theoretical considerations, I have divided into closed conversation, open conversation, and mixed conversation type based on the conversation style based on the implementation method of chatbot. Three types of Financial Chatbot prototypes were made and the experiments were conducted after account inquiry, account transfer, Q & A financial task execution. As a result of experimental research analysis, chatbot's interaction dialogue type was found to affect efficiency and usability. Users have shown that the interaction of closed conversations and mixed conversations is an intuitive interface that allows financial services to be easily manipulated without error. This study will be used as a resource to improve the user experience that requires deep understanding of financial chatbot users who should consider both the emotional element of artificial intelligence that provides services through natural conversation and the functional elements that perform financial business can be.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.155-168
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• 2007

Social and psychological experiences in human-agent interactions are becoming more important than the task-oriented efficiency, as the influence of computer agents increases and human-agent interaction develops similarly with interpersonal interaction. Many previous studies aimed to increase social presence in human-agent interaction, in order to derive users' positive psychological experiences, by applying the factors of interpersonal communication to verbal and non-verbal communication of the agents. This study examined the effects of the exchanges of mutual self-disclosure, one of the most important communication acts in interpersonal communication, between users and interface agents. Users' attachment styles towards the perception of social presence, the evaluations toward the agents, user experiences, and the intentions for future interaction were also studied. The mediating role of social presence in dependent variables was, also, examined in this research. The results showed that exchanging self-disclosures with an agent increased the perceptions of social experience, friendly evaluations toward the agent, positive user experience, and the intentions for future interaction. Participants' attachment styles, also, affected the perceptions of the dependent variables. The effects of the exchanges of self-disclosure and participants' attachment styles were mediated by perceived social presence toward the agent. The findings of this study imply that the social and communicational aspects need to be considered in design of the agents seriously. The results also suggest that there may be differences in the psychological effects of agents on users according to the users' personality.