by Mirre van den Bos, Gergana Dzhondzhorova, Ioana Frincu, Ella Velner, Thomas Beelen and Mariet Theune
Karen is a conversational agent taking the role of an angry customer in a retail context. While the user (retail employee) tries to convince Karen to follow the rules, the agent interrupts the user, and verbally and nonverbally reacts to the user’s sentiments.