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    "pk": 28930,
    "title": "Evaluating Levels of Emotional Contagion with anEmbodied Conversational Agent",
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    "abstract": "This paper presents an embodied conversational agent frame-work as a controlled environment to test components of em-pathy. We implement levels of emotional contagion which in-cludes mimicry and affective matching along with necessarycommunicational capabilities. We further demonstrate an ex-amination of these foundational behaviors in isolation, to bet-ter understand the effect of each level on the perception of em-pathy in a social conversational scenario with a human actor.We report three studies where the agent shows levels of emo-tional contagion behavior during (1) the listening act in com-parison with baseline backchanneling behavior (2) additionalverbal response matching simple emotional storyline (3) theverbal response to the human actor performing complex emo-tional behaviors. Results revealed that both mimicry and affec-tive matching behaviors were perceived as more empathic thanthe baseline listening behavior, where the difference betweenthese behaviors was only significant when the agent verballyresponded to complex emotional behaviors.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Emotional Contagion; Mirroring; AffectMatching; Affective Computing; Social Interaction; Em-bodied Conversational Agents"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ozge",
            "middle_name": "Nilay",
            "last_name": "Yalcın",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Simon Fraser University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Steve",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "DiPaola",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Simon Fraser University",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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