Workshop website: http://casa-workshop2013.blogspot.com/ | Graphics by Xinwei Wang This volume contains the proceedings of the 1st CASA-Computer as Social Actors Workshop, in association with the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), held in Edinburgh on August 28th, 2013. The CASAs mission is to bring together researchers from di↵ erent disciplines and combine their knowledge and expertise contributing in a multidisciplinary way to the advancement of Computers as Social Actors. The CASA Workshop fo-cuses on three main areas of investigation: theory, practice and market.
The scientific field of CASA is highly interdisciplinary, encompassing development of technological components, de-sign methodologies, and the adoption and take up of CASA solutions and services. The main emphasis is to exploit many di↵ erent human-machine and human-human interaction technologies and methodologies addressing several dif-ferent concrete scenarios identifying key characteristics of social actorship.
Social actorship is a concept that does not have a precise definition in literature. People apply social rules to many as-pects of human-computer interaction independently of whether or not the systems are given explicitly anthropomorphic interfaces. Social actorship refers to systems that present social awareness and intentionality qualities, and possibly some form of embodiment. Humans, when interacting with CASA can be led to feel empathy, and experience a diverse set of emotional reactions. Social actorship can also refer to systems, such as computers, robots and other artefacts, that are able of invoking social responses from its users. Consequently, the social actorship of a system is a combination of di↵ erent elements that do not depend only on the system itself but also on the context, the presence of, and interaction with other actors. The modulation of these elements contributes to the perception of the system as a social actor.
The CASA Workshop is supported by EIT ICT Labs (www.eitictlabs.eu).
Kerstin Dautenhahn Faculty of Science, Technology and Creative Arts, University of Hertfordshire (UK) Frank Dignum Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University (NL) Bj¨orn Granstr¨om Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (SE) Joakim Gustafson Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm (SE) Kate Hone Brunel University, London (UK) Jun Hu Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) Eva Hudlicka Psychometrix Associates, Blacksburg, VA (US) Toru Ishida Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University (JP) Stefan Kopp Bielefeld University (DE) Antonio Krueger DFKI (DE) Manja Lohse University of Twente (NL) Magalie Ochs CNRS, TELECOM ParisTech (FR) Gianluca Schiavo Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Trento (IT) Oliviero Stock Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Trento (IT) Janneke van der Zwaan Delft University of Technology (NL) Workshop papers User Experience and Social Attribution for an Embodied Spoken Dialog System Benjamin Weiss and Simon Willkomm The E↵ ect of Variations in Emotional Expressiveness on Social Support Janneke M. van der Zwaan, Virginia Dignum, and Catholijn M. Jonker Feel Connected with Social Actors in Public Spaces Mathias Funk, Duy Le, and Jun Hu Social Agency in an Interactive Training System Norbert Reithinger and Ben Hennig A Crowdsourcing Toolbox for a User-perception Based Design of Social Virtual Actors Magalie Ochs, Brian Ravenet, and Catherine Pelachaud Taking Things at Face Value: How Stance Informs Politeness of Virtual Agents Jeroen Linssen, Mari¨et Theune, and Dirk Heylen 1 9 21 34 46 58 71