Catharine Oertel

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Transparent Conversational Agents: The Impact of Capability Communication on User Behavior and Mental Model Alignment

When a user interacts with a conversational agent for the first time, they may not be aware of the agent's capabilities, leading to suboptimal use or interaction breakdowns. To avoid a mismatch with the actual capabilities, the agent's capabilities have to be made transparent to the user. To investigate whether commu…

DIS '25CorrespondingHand Gesture Recognition +2

Knowing Me, Knowing AU: How Should We Design Agent-Mediated Mimicry?

A lack of self-awareness of communicative behaviours can lead to disadvantages in important interactions. Video recordings as a tool for self-observation have been widely adopted to initiate behaviour change and reflection. Seeing oneself in a recording can lead to negative affect. Forcing an external perspective can…

HRI '202nd AuthorEye Tracking & Gaze Interaction +1

Effects of Different Interaction Contexts when Evaluating Gaze Models in HRI

We previously introduced a responsive joint attention system that uses multimodal information from users engaged in a spatial reasoning task with a robot and communicates joint attention via the robot’s gaze behavior. An initial evaluation of our system with adults showed it to improve users’ perceptions of the robot’…

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