Value-driven research and design
We seek to develop value-driven solutions that can both help secure and achieve the desirable effects of digitalization, and limit and pre-empt its undesirable ones.
Broad interdisciplinarity
where disciplines from across the humanities, engineering and social sciences meet.
iLab: making new research possible.
Value-sensitive prototype development and evaluation.
Politeness for Artificial Conversational Agents: Computational Modelling and Human Expectations
Politeness is a linguistic mechanism fundamental to ‘tactful’ social interaction. It is unclear, however, whether and how the use of polite language transfers to interactions with artificial conversational agents such as voice assistants or social robots. I will talk about our research on computational models of politeness for conversational agents as well as our studies on differences in influences on and expectations of politeness in human and human-agent interaction.
