Credibility Through Non-native Language Varieties in Conversational Pedagogical Agents (D03)

• Subject Area: Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics ; Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing ; Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416228727

The research project includes five major work packages: The baseline is established through the compilation of key linguistic cues, the implementation testing of existing agents, and the development of instruments to measure credibility. The next phase prepares the linguistic input of annotated texts, which is fed into the CPA, and tested empirically. The evaluation phase includes the linguistic evaluation of the text output, the computational training of the CPA, and the psychological pre-testing. The central phase is the necessary extension and refinement of input, CPA training, and statistical analyses. The final phase makes the project results available to the academic community through respective discipline-specific publication outlets.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1410: Hybrid Societies: Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Chemnitz
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Maximilian Eibl; Professor Dr. Günter Daniel Rey; Professor Dr. Josef Schmied