Designing Honesty in Conversational Agents

  • Type:Masterarbeit
  • Date:15.04.2025
  • Supervisor:

    Alexander Dregger

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    Description:

    Currently, research is discussing the shaping of personality traits in conversational agents such as chatbots (e.g. Ahmad et al., 2022; Völkel, 2021). However, previous publications show that certain personality dimensions such as honesty have been little studied with regard to their shaping with the help of linguistic cues in conversational agents such as chatbots. The aim would be to carry out a proposal for the systematic design of such a dimension and to experimentally validate its user effect in a scenario.

     

    The thesis should pursue the following goals:

    • Literature review on the personality dimension honesty and its design
    • Development of suggestions for the design of this feature with the help of linguistic cues
    • Validation of the design proposals using an initial experimental study in which users interact with a conversational agent
    • Reporting and discussion of the results
       

    What you bring to the table:

    • You are studying computer science, business informatics, industrial engineering, economics or a comparable degree program
    • You are interested in UX and the design of conversational agents
    • You enjoy working independently
    • Ideally, you have basic knowledge of literature research
    • Ideally, you have basic knowledge in the construction of questionnaires
    • You have a very good command of written and spoken German and English
    • You have basic knowledge of statistics and relevant software, e.g. R or SPSS
    • You are motivated and committed
       

    What we offer you:

    • Motivated and competent support is important to us. For us, this includes taking enough time for you and supporting you with helpful feedback.
    • You will gain exciting insights into interdisciplinary research topics.
    • You can flexibly organize the implementation (working hours, remote)

    Have we piqued your interest? Then send us your application. We look forward to getting to know you!

    Alexander Dregger, M.Sc. (dregger@fzi.de), phone: +49 721 9654-659, will be happy to answer any technical questions you may have about the position.