Effect of Social Actors Perceived Agency on Social Presence in Computer-Mediated Communication

Nowadays, both text-based and 3D online applications rely on conversational agents autonomous characters to interact with users. Previous experiments demonstrated that perceived agency, is say, one’s belief in interacting a computer- or another human-controlled entity could impact social interaction. At present, theories results still diverge no consensus has been reached. Therefore, we developed an experiment investigate the effect of agency emotional communication presence. Participants were told they would play image recognition game against opponent. In cases, participants faced computer-controlled opponent designed provide challenging yet balanced competitive experience. Depending experimental conditions, able communicate their opponents using emoticons between rounds. Results demonstrate significant main three dimensions presence considered this experiment. An interaction was observed copresence, core dimension The participants’ sense copresence depends A increase for facing when allowed. even higher rather than presumed one. These are discussed regard computer-mediated communication.