Emotional interaction in a hybrid conversational group

This paper presents a hybrid conversation group of talking heads, and discusses some solutions concerning emotions and social-emotional signs in more detail. A hybrid conversation group consists of real and virtual members, which meet to discuss some specific theme. The use of such a group, together with digital storytelling techniques, is a promising way of engaging the user in the exploration of complex and multi-faceted knowledge. An import issue in a hybrid conversation group are the emotions and the social-emotional signs of the virtual characters, because those signs are necessary for the development of sub-plots in which the characters establish friendship and respect relationships with the user. Reciprocity, "Tit for tat", turns out to be one important basic measure for the calculation of social-emotional signs of virtual characters, with the second measure being norm levels of exchange. Parametric variations of measurement of equity considerations of the virtual characters already comprise a wide range of personality trait differences.