Explicating the roles of self-disclosure and task objectivity in trust and relationship development with embodied conversational agents

• Main Author: Wang, Xuan
• Other Authors: Chen Lou
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168512
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Computer agents are no longer considered as the interface merely the instrument or medium of human interaction, but more importantly, the partner engaging in communicative exchanges (Gunkel, 2012). While a vast group of studies has investigated the design addressing both task-solving skills and soci...