Visualization of social emotional appraisal process of an agent

Emotion expressions show the results of appraising sensory inputs that reflect both the physical and social environment. The observer of the emotion expressions should decode how sensory input appraised in the actor, i.e., reverse appraisal. However, the reverse appraisal is an ill-posed inverse problem because the same emotional expression is produced in different situations and emotion expressions in the same situation vary depending on individual differences. To overcome this difficulty, individuals must have an appropriate appraisal model. Our final goal is to build a social skill training system that trains people who have difficulties in understanding the mental states of others. In the present paper, we show an emotional interactive agent with a transparent appraisal process. It is a future issue to investigate whether social skills can be acquired through our system.