A storytelling robot, controlled via the ACT-R cognitive architecture, able to adopt different persuasive techniques and ethical stances while conversing about some topics concerning COVID-19. A needs-driven model guides and evaluates, during the dialogue, the use (if any) of persuasive techniques available in the agent procedural memory. The portfolio of persuasive techniques tested in such a model ranges from the use of storytelling to framing techniques and rhetorical-based arguments. An exploratory evaluation of the system was obtained on 63 participants.
Social robots
ACT-R Robots
Architecture for Digital Storytelling The work studies the empathy elicited by a storytelling system in which the characters in the
