Research Article
A Text-Based Chat System Embodied with an Expressive Agent
Table 6
Comparative analysis based on the subjective evaluation between the proposed and emoticon based approaches.
| Questionnaire items | Proposed method | Emoticon based method | Significant level | Mean (Std.) | Mean (Std.) |
| Ease of operation | 5.4 (0.87) | 3.9 (0.84) | | Reliability | 5 (0.48) | 1.7 (0.47) | | Expressiveness | 5.7 (0.82) | 2.3 (0.48) | | Suitability | 4.4 (0.42) | 1.2 (1.07) | | Effectiveness | 5.6 (0.82) | 2.7 (0.51) | | Appropriateness | 5.6 (0.94) | 2.7 (0.69) | | Interestingness | 6.3 (1.2) | 3.5 (0.48) | |
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