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Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence

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Toward Enhancing User Involvement via Empathy Channel in Human-Computer Interface Design

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This paper reports our research toward enhancing the ‘User Involvement’ in human-computer interaction, which is introduced to grasp the idealised state in which a natural communication between a computer and its user should be established. Moreover, we also introduce a new idea of ‘Empathy Channel’, through which humans can interact with virtual agents and objects on computers with more sense of reality. The main issue of this paper is to clarify various methods for establishing an Empathy Channel in building a human-computer interface. We believe a good design of human-computer interface with an Empathy Channel is one of the best methods to enhance the User Involvement.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Masashi Okamoto

  2. Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Atago Green Hills MORI Tower 18F, 2-5-1 Atago, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-6218, Japan

    Yukiko I. Nakano

  3. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    and Toyoaki Nishida

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Ordona 21, 01-237, Warsaw, Poland

    Leonard Bolc

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Zbigniew Michalewicz

  3. Dept. of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan

    Toyoaki Nishida

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Okamoto, M., Nakano, Y.I., Nishida, a.T. (2005). Toward Enhancing User Involvement via Empathy Channel in Human-Computer Interface Design. In: Bolc, L., Michalewicz, Z., Nishida, T. (eds) Intelligent Media Technology for Communicative Intelligence. IMTCI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558637_12

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