The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents : 20 Years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics, Volume 1: Establishing SIA Research, Appearance and Behaviour, Social Cognition.

Intro
The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents
Contents
Foreword
1 Introduction to Socially Interactive Agents
1.1 Potential of SIAs
1.2 Terminology
1.3 Origin and Embodiment
1.4 Purpose of the Book
1.5 Structure of the Book
1.5.1 Volume 1
1.5.2 Volume 2
1.6 Further Readings
Acknowledgments
References
I ESTABLISHING SIA RESEARCH
2 Empirical Methods in the Social Science for Researching Socially Interactive Agents
2.1 Motivation
2.1.1 Why Do I Need Methodological Knowledge in the Empirical Social Sciences?

2.1.2 What Are Methods in the Empirical Social Sciences?
2.2 Models and Approaches
2.2.1 The Research Process
2.2.1.1 Step 1-Find a Research Topic
2.2.1.2 Step 2-Form a Research Question or Hypothesis
2.2.1.3 Step 3-Define the Research Strategy and Experiment Design
2.2.1.4 Step 4-Operationalization of Variables
2.2.1.5 Step 5-Define and Select Sample
2.2.1.6 Step 6-Conduct the Study/Data Collection
2.2.1.7 Step 7-Data Processing and Data Analysis
2.2.1.8 Step 8-Report Results
2.2.2 Two Exemplary Research Projects
2.2.2.1 Example 1-Evaluating a Learning Robot

2.2.2.2 Example 2-Developing an Agent for Assisted Living
2.2.3 Types of Studies Most Commonly Used in SIA Research
2.2.3.1 Interview
2.2.3.2 Perception-only Non-interactive Studies
2.2.3.3 Interaction Studies
2.3 Research Tools
2.4 Current Challenges
2.4.1 Replication Crisis
2.4.2 Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
2.4.3 Field Studies and Long-term Studies
2.5 Future Directions
2.6 Summary
2.A Appendix A
References
3 Social Reactions to Socially Interactive Agents and Their Ethical Implications
3.1 Motivation
3.2 Models and Approaches

3.2.1 Approaches which Assume that Reactions are Not Truly Social
3.2.2 Approaches which Assume that Reactions are Social and Unconscious
3.2.3 Approaches which Assume that Social Reactions Depend on the Level of Assumed Agency
3.3 History/Overview
3.3.1 Influence of Agent Attributes
3.3.1.1 Communicative Behavior of the Agent
3.3.1.2 Non-verbal Communicative Features of Agents
3.3.1.3 Physical Appearance
3.3.2 Influence of User Attributes
3.3.2.1 Gender
3.3.2.2 Age
3.3.2.3 Computer Literacy
3.3.2.4 Personality

3.4 Similarities and Differences in IVAs and SRs
3.5 Current Challenges
3.6 Future Directions
3.7 Summary
References
II APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOR
4 Appearance
4.1 Why Appearance?
4.2 History
4.3 Design
4.3.1 What Is Appearance?
4.3.2 Modalities
4.3.3 Agent Construction
4.3.3.1 Construction of Virtual Characters
4.3.3.2 Industrial Design of Robots
4.4 Features
4.4.1 Facial Features
4.4.2 Bodily Features
4.4.3 Features Expressing Demographic Characteristics
4.4.4 Realism, Appeal, and the Uncanny Valley
4.5 Summary
References