My partner is a real dog
Salvatore Parise, Sara B. Kiesler, Lee S. Sproull, Keith Waters · 1996
We investigated how cooperation with a computer agent was affected by the agent's pictorial realism, humanlikeness, and likability.Participants played a social dilemma game with a talking computer agent that resembled a person, a dog, or a cartoon dog, or with a confederate interacting through a video link.Participants cooperated highly with the person computer agent and with the confederate.They loved the dog and dog cartoon agents, but (excepting dog owners), significantly less with the dog agents, questionnaire results suggest likability than respect in prompting cooperation agent.