“I Know That You Know How I Feel”: Behavioral and Physiological Signals Demonstrate Emotional Attunement While Interacting with a Computer Simulating Emotional Intelligence

摘要: Human–human communication studies have suggested that within communicative interactions, individuals acknowledge each other as intentional agents and adjust their emotion nonverbal behavior according to the other. This process has been defined emotional attunement. In this study, we examine attunement in context of affective human–computer interactions. To purpose, participants were exposed one two conditions. case, they played with a computer simulated understanding reactions while guiding them across four different game-like activities; other, guided activities without mentioning any ability understand responses. Face movements, gaze direction, posture, vocal behavior, electrocardiogram electrodermal activity simultaneously recorded during experimental sessions. Results showed if aware interacting an agent able recognize emotions, reported was “understand” higher number behaviors most interactive activity. The implications are discussed.