Integration of various emotion eliciting factors for life-like agents

Abstract

A variety of works on building and adapting life-like agents for human-computer communication have been conducting. An important aspect we should consider when designing an agent is that how it is regarded by users. Through the appropriate mechanisms we should permit the users’ suspension of disbelief for agents and give users the conviction that they can communicate with a computer efficiently and friendly by intervention of agents. We present here some preliminary works, a generalized and extended framework for the generation of emotions in anthropomorphic agents. A basic idea of the model is placed on the cognitive appraisal model, but it is extended to include other emotion eliciting factors, which are conventionally accepted that they are closely related to the generation of emotions. By representing the structure of the cognitive theory as a simple weighted network, the method provides a flexible way of modeling different aspects of personalities and temperaments.