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Feeling and reasoning: a computational model for emotional characters
João Dias,Ana Paiva +1 more
- pp 127-140
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Inspired by the work of traditional character animators, this paper proposes an architectural model to build autonomous characters where the agent’s reasoning and behaviour is influenced by its emotional state and personality.Abstract:
Interactive virtual environments (IVEs) are now seen as an engaging new way by which children learn experimental sciences and other disciplines. These environments are populated by synthetic characters that guide and stimulate the children activities. In order to build such environments, one needs to address the problem of how achieve believable and empathic characters that act autonomously. Inspired by the work of traditional character animators, this paper proposes an architectural model to build autonomous characters where the agent’s reasoning and behaviour is influenced by its emotional state and personality. We performed a small case evaluation in order to determine if the characters evoked empathic reactions in the users with positive results.read more
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Empirically building and evaluating a probabilistic model of user affect
Cristina Conati,Heather Maclaren +1 more
TL;DR: This paper illustrates how the predictive part of the affective model is built by combining general theories with empirical studies to adapt the theories to the target application domain and presents results on the model’s accuracy, showing that the model achieves good accuracy on several of the target emotions.
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ECHOES: An intelligent serious game for fostering social communication in children with autism
TL;DR: This paper focuses on the design and implementation of the interactive learning activities, which take place in a two-dimensional sensory garden, and the autonomous virtual agent, which acts as a credible social partner to children with autism.
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FAtiMA Modular: Towards an Agent Architecture with a Generic Appraisal Framework
TL;DR: This paper presents a generic and flexible architecture for emotional agents, with what it considers to be the minimum set of functionalities that allows us to implement and compare different appraisal theories in a given scenario.
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Empathy in Virtual Agents and Robots: A Survey
TL;DR: The research conducted to date on empathic agents is presented in light of the principles and mechanisms of empathy found in humans and some of the main challenges this exciting area will be facing in the future are discussed.
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