ERiSA: building emotionally realistic social game-agents companions

Chowanda, Andry; Blanchfield, Peter; Flintham, Martin D.; Valstar, Michel

Abstract

We propose an integrated framework for social and emotional game-agents to enhance their believability and quality of interaction, in particular by allowing an agent to forge social relations and make appropriate use of social signals. The framework is modular including sensing, interpretation, behaviour generation, and game components. We propose a generic formulation of action selection rules based on observed social and emotional signals, the agent’s personality, and the social relation between agent and player. The rules are formulated such that its variables can easily be obtained from real data. We illustrate and evaluate our framework using a simple social game called The Smile Game.

Citation

Chowanda, A., Blanchfield, P., Flintham, M. D., & Valstar, M. (in press). ERiSA: building emotionally realistic social game-agents companions. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8637, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_16

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 1, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Sep 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Oct 25, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 25, 2016
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Electronic ISSN: 0302-9743
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8637
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Book Title: Intelligent Virtual Agents
• ISBN: 978-3-319-09766-4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_16
• Keywords: Social Relationship, Framework, Game-Agents, Interactions
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/733289
• Publisher URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-09767-1_16
• Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_16; Part of 14th International Conference, IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, August 27-29, 2014.