Socially-Aware Personality Adaptation

Abstract

Emotion and personality are interrelated. A social agent's perceived personality profile influences its affective behavior and vice versa. Having a clear idea and understanding of personality, both from a theoretical perspective and in the context of social agents, is essential for designing intelligent and affective agents. This also includes adaptation to the individual user's needs and preferences, which can be driven by explicit or implicit user feedback to create engaging interactions in the long run. This paper provides a literature overview on how to implement personality for an embodied agent. After presenting personality and personality attraction related theories, we show how personality is conveyed multimodally in current implementations of social agents. Furthermore, adaptation approaches are surveyed, which are used to shape the behavior according to the user preferences.