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- Increasing empathy in virtual agent interactionPublication . Belim, Paulo Afonso Pinto; Cameirão, Mónica da Silva; Mendes, Diana C. GonçalvesThe need to socialize and connect is an essential part of human identity, and empathy, the capacity to perceive, share, and respond to the emotions of others, is at its core. In the case of virtual agents for self-disclosure, an extensive amount of work has studied the features that should be present to make them more empathetic. However, more studies are needed to improve how empathetic agents act and respond. The goal of this thesis is to study and observe how tracking non-verbal motion, like facial expressions, can help empathic agents detect human emotions and connect with their users. For this purpose, further development was done to an existing virtual agent for self-disclosure, an early prototype that aimed to depict empathetic conversation and active listening behaviors, to detect facial movement. We will study how interaction is affected by message quality, delivered responses, and how well the agent can adapt to non-verbal emotional changes. Our goal is to develop a package focused on improving empathetic features in virtual agents, contributing to the advancement in the design of virtual agents for mental health applications.