Leveraging Personality to Design Expression for AI Based Embodied Agents

Abstract

Conversational agents empowered by artificial intelligence, for instance Siri, Alexa, and more, are widely adopted and used nowadays. Users tend to perceive certain characters or personalities to those agents, interact with them. These situations lead us to following research questions; Can we leverage personality as a medium to design agents? How can we use it for designing dialogues and other modalities in early-stage of design? We conduct a remote design-sessions with designers who experienced designing dialogues for CA with two different types of pre-defined personality. (N = 16, total 268 sentences) They are asked to write scripts with stage directions based 26 situation units according to five functions on healthcare agents.