peer reviewed · ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (2005)
Establishing and Maintaining Long-Term Human-Computer Relationships
Timothy Bickmore, Rosalind Picard
In plain English
The foundational paper of the field. Introduces relational agents and borrows the therapeutic working alliance as a way to measure whether people bond with software over time.
relational agents
trust
foundational
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