Recent work [1, 2, 3] has argued that subjective questionnaires may be ineffective at measuring copresence towards agents and avatars in immersive virtual environments (IVEs). The current work directly compares self-report and behavioral measures of copresence. In two studies, we measured the interpersonal distance between participants and either an embodied tutoring agent or an unfamiliar embo...

We present an embodied model of gaze-following. The model learns how to follow another’s gaze by using cognitively plausible mechanisms. It matches a classic gazefollowing experiment (Corkum & Moore, 1998) and runs on an embodied robotic system.