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iCat, the chess player: the influence of embodiment in the enjoyment of a game

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Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3 table of contents

Estoril, Portugal

SESSION: Virtual agents track table of contents

Pages 1253-1256

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-0-9817381-2-X

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André Pereira	INESC-ID, Porto Salvo, Portugal
Carlos Martinho	INESC-ID, Porto Salvo, Portugal
Iolanda Leite	INESC-ID, Porto Salvo, Portugal
Ana Paiva	INESC-ID, Porto Salvo, Portugal

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
AAAI : Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence

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International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Richland, SC

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This paper presents an experiment that evaluates and compares the user enjoyment when playing a game of chess in two situations: against a physically embodied robotic agent and against a virtually embodied agent, displayed on screen. The results of the study suggest that embodiment has implications on user enjoyment, as the experience against a robotic agent was classified as more enjoyable than against a virtually embodied agent.

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