Cognitive Planning for Persuasive Multimodal Interaction

This paper proposes guidelines for the design of embodied social agents endowed with cognitive planning capabilities to be used in the context of persuasive multimodal interaction. Cognitive planning is the kind of planning aimed at finding and then executing an informative plan with the goal of influencing the cognitive state or the behavior of the interlocutor. We show how the integration of elements from the motivational interviewing (MI) methodology and non-verbal behavior allows us to improve the persuasiveness of the agent.