Induction of the being-seen-feeling by an embodied conversational agent in a socially interactive context Induction of the being-seen-feeling by an embodied conversational agent in a socially interactive context

To communicate with human interlocutors, embodied conversational agent use multi-modal signals. The goal of our project was to implement a social eye-gaze in a agent to evaluate its effect in interlocutors. Precisely, we focused on the being-seen-feeling (BSF) during a socially interactive context. This feeling is labeled as the inference we have when we have the impression that someone is able to see us [3]. The being-seen-feeling influences our behaviors and even physiological parameters [2, 5, 7]. The influence of the BSF can be analysed through how we use our eyes and our body during an interaction or through scales participants answer after their interaction with an agent. Our goal was to conceive a socially interactive paradigm and to analyse on those parameters to answer our problematic: what is the effect of an agent social eye-gaze in a human interlocutor?