In this paper we present a computational model for managing the impressions of warmth
and competence (the two fundamental dimensions of social cognition) of an Embodied
Conversational Agent (ECA) while interacting with a human. The ECA can choose among
four different self-presentational strategies eliciting different impressions of warmth and/or
competence in the user, through its verbal and non-verbal behavior. The choice of the non-
verbal behaviors displayed by the ECA relies on our previous studies. In our first study, we …