The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment

Karthi Selvarajah; Debbie Richards

doi:10.1145/1082473.1082476

The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment

Karthi Selvarajah^*, Debbie Richards

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Computing

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Abstract

In the past emotions have been dismissed as a distraction to the logical, scientific thought process. More recently however, the importance of emotion in human-like intelligence and behaviour has been identified. This project aims at exploring this aspect of Artificial Intelligence by modeling the ability to display emotions in autonomous software agents within the constraints of a virtual environment. The motivation behind this is to determine whether the behaviour of these agents will cause the human participant to interact with the agent as if interacting with other humans. We have created an Agent-Cocktail Party World for this purpose and an Avatar-Cocktail Party World for the purpose of studying the psychological phenomenon of Ostracism. Our results show that the addition of an emotion-based intelligent component was able to make a statistically significant difference to the experimental condition by creating a more realistic environment in which to simulate the Punitive Ostracism condition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05
Editors	Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Sven Koenig, Sarit Kraus, Munindar P. Singh, Michael Wooldridge
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	161-168
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	1595930930
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1082473.1082476
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05 - Utrecht, Netherlands Duration: 25 Jul 2005 → 29 Jul 2005

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Other	4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Utrecht
Period	25/07/05 → 29/07/05

Keywords

Emotion-based agent architecture
Ostracism
Psychology
Virtual reality

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Selvarajah, K & Richards, D 2005, The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment. in F Dignum, V Dignum, S Koenig, S Kraus, MP Singh & M Wooldridge (eds), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05. ACM, New York, pp. 161-168, 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05, Utrecht, Netherlands, 25/07/05. https://doi.org/10.1145/1082473.1082476

The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment. / Selvarajah, Karthi; Richards, Debbie.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi agent Systems, AAMAS 05. ed. / Frank Dignum; Virginia Dignum; Sven Koenig; Sarit Kraus; Munindar P. Singh; Michael Wooldridge. New York: ACM, 2005. p. 161-168.

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