Speech Perception and Implementation in a Virtual Medical Assistant

Aryana Jackson, Yann Glémarec, Elisabetta Bevacqua, Pierre De Loor, Ronan Querrec

2022

Abstract

In emergency medical procedures, positive and trusting interactions between followers and leaders are imperative. That interaction is even more important when a virtual agent assumes the leader role and a human assumes the follower role. In order to manage the human-computer interaction, situational leadership is employed to match the human follower to an appropriate leadership style embodied by the agent. Situational leadership was used to create 33 utterances indicative of the four different leadership styles. A participant evaluation was then carried out in order to examine (1) whether perceptions of leader trust and motivation vary dependent on both readiness level and utterance syntax and (2) whether follower ability and willingness are affected by the leader’s speech. We found that general perceptions of leadership behavior influenced follower performance and that the leader’s speech influences followers’ ability. Finally, we demonstrate how the results of this study are implemented in a virtual agent system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jackson A., Glémarec Y., Bevacqua E., De Loor P. and Querrec R. (2022). Speech Perception and Implementation in a Virtual Medical Assistant. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, pages 106-117. DOI: 10.5220/0010914500003116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart22,
author={Aryana Jackson and Yann Glémarec and Elisabetta Bevacqua and Pierre De Loor and Ronan Querrec},
title={Speech Perception and Implementation in a Virtual Medical Assistant},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2022},
pages={106-117},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010914500003116},
isbn={978-989-758-547-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Speech Perception and Implementation in a Virtual Medical Assistant
SN - 978-989-758-547-0
AU - Jackson A.
AU - Glémarec Y.
AU - Bevacqua E.
AU - De Loor P.
AU - Querrec R.
PY - 2022
SP - 106
EP - 117
DO - 10.5220/0010914500003116