Print Email Facebook Twitter A Disclosure Intimacy Rating Scale for Child-Agent Interaction Title A Disclosure Intimacy Rating Scale for Child-Agent Interaction Author Burger, F. Broekens, J. Neerincx, M.A. Publication year 2016 Abstract Reciprocal self-disclosure is an integral part of social bonding between humans that has received little attention in the field of human-agent interaction. To study how children react to self-disclosures of a virtual agent, we developed a disclosure intimacy rating scale that can be used to assess both the intimacy level of agent disclosures and that of child disclosures. To this end, 72 disclosures were derived from a biography created for the agent and rated by 10 university students for intimacy. A principal component analysis and subsequent k-means clustering of the rated statements resulted in four distinct levels of intimacy based on the risk of a negative appraisal and the impact of betrayal by the listener. This validated rating scale can be readily used with other agents or interfaces. Subject Human & Operational ModellingPCS - Perceptual and Cognitive SystemsELSS - Earth, Life and Social SciencesHealthy for LifeRoboticsHealthy LivingLong-termcHRISelf-disclosureIntimacyPAL project To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:03b2b082-6794-4827-8084-edc8f32a2c30 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_40 TNO identifier 574962 Publisher Springer Source IVA 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 392-396 Document type conference paper Files To receive the publication files, please send an e-mail request to TNO Library.