Chue, VictorRios, Juan SebastianWohn, Donghee Yvette2023-03-172023-03-172018https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4503This study examined the effect of touching a warm or cold surface while interacting with a chatbot to see if temperature contributes to feelings of closeness with the artificial conversational agent. Our two-group experiment (N= 44) found no differences between hot and cold conditions in people's liking of the chatbot, but found a main effect of existing favorable attitudes toward chatbots.enhapticconversational agentchatbottouchtemperatureA Hot Bot: Testing Effect of Temperature on Feelings of Closeness When Interacting With a ChatbotText/Conference Paper10.1145/3148330.3154516