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Presently, there are user interfaces that allowmultimodal interactions. Many existing research andprototype systems introduced embodied agents, assumingthat they allow a more natural conversation or dialoguebetween user and computer. Here we will first take a lookat how in general people react to computers. We will lookat some of the theories, in particular the CASA("Computers Are Social Actors") paradigm, and thendiscuss how new technology, for example ambientintelligence technology, needs to anticipate the need ofhumans to build up social relationships. One way toanticipate is to do research in the area of socialpsychology, to translate findings there to the human-computersituation and to investigate technologicalpossibilities to include human-human communicationcharacteristics in the interface. For that reason we willdiscuss embodied conversational agents, the role they canplay in human-computer interaction (in face-to-faceconversation), in ambient intelligence environments andin virtual communities.