Interacting with Socio-emotional Agents

Interacting with Emotional Virtual Agents

Sensitive Artificial Listener (SAL) is a multimodal dialogue system which allows users to interact with virtual agents. Four characters with different emotional traits engage users is emotionally coloured interactions. They not only encourage the users into talking but also try to drag them towards specific emotional states. Despite the agents very limited verbal understanding, they are able to...

Emotional Modeling with Synthetic Agents

The idea of artificially intelligent agents hearkens back to the first science fiction stories of androids, robotic people who could interact with humans and with each other. Today we have separated the tasks of building physical robots from designing their software, but the basic idea remains the same. A synthetic agent is an embodied character who acts independently and interactively in a bel...

Emotional Agents

Interacting Agents with Memory in Virtual Ecosystems

An agent-based modeling of virtual ecosystems is presented. A virtual ecosystem develops by plant competition according to biologically inspired rules and tends to reach stability. Virtual agents enter the ecosystem and perform actions that favor certain plant species and cause system instabilities. Agents liberate space for some plant species by eliminating the others, they take out old plants...

Stochastic games with infinitely many interacting agents

We introduce and study a class of infinite-horizon non-zero-sum non-cooperative stochastic games with infinitely many interacting agents using ideas of statistical mechanics. First we show, in the general case of asymmetric interactions, the existence of a strategy that allows any player to eliminate losses after a finite random time. In the special case of symmetric interactions, we also prove...