On the Possibility of Regulation of Human Emotions Via Multimodal Social Interaction with an Embodied Agent Controlled by Ebica-Based Emotional Interaction Model

Embodied social agents are expected to become useful for emotion regulation with applications in the field of service-oriented artificial intelligence. Emotion models can be used to generate an adequate response of the agent in order to achieve a desired emotion regulation effect. Here an eBICA-based model of emotional interaction of embodied social agents is proposed, combining concepts borrowed from biology, cognitive psychology, sociology, and ethics. Based on it, a concept of an embodied emotionally-intelligent agent is developed that will enable natural user emotion regulation during human-computer social interaction. The expected impact includes new smart emotion regulation technologies and new feasible means for emotional communication with and via artifacts.