‘Virtual partner’ elicits emotional responses from a human partner in real-time

‘How does it ‘feel’ to interact behaviorally with a machine?’ To answer that, scientists created a virtual partner that can elicit emotional responses from its human partner while the pair engages in behavioral coordination in real-time. The virtual partner’s behavior is governed by mathematical models of human-to-human interactions in a way that enables humans to interact with the mathematical description of their social selves.