Interpersonal Emotion Regulation via Multimodal Interaction with a Bonding Bot: An Adaptive Network Model
摘要
This chapter provides and analyses an adaptive network model and simulated data about interaction of a human with a bonding bot to help guide designers in assessing to what extent mapping human-like mental processes and behaviors on their companion bots has valuable effects. The analysis results found here provide a promising perspective for interpersonal emotion regulation using such human-like bonding bots. The bot’s multimodal interactions helped to regulate the human’s emotions by effects of emerging synchrony via synchrony-induced bonding on social contagion even under less favorable circumstances such as poor human emotion regulation capabilities.