A Personality Based Emotion Model for Intelligent Virtual Agents

Author

Liu, Zhen

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Ningbo Univ., Ningbo

Volume

6

fYear

2008

fDate

18-20 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

16

Abstract

Modeling intelligent virtual agent is a new research field that integrates artificial life and computer animation together. A believable virtual agent should have personality, motivation, and emotion. Personality is an important characteristic for a virtual agent, the relative researches on intelligent agents are summarized, and the formal definitions for personality and emotions are presented in fuzzy set theory. A computational model of emotion is set up, inner motivation variable and outer stimuli variable can drive the trigger of a basic emotion, the quantitative relations among personality, motivation, and emotion are proposed. The result shows that a virtual agent with different personality variables may express an emotion or not.

Keywords

artificial life; emotion recognition; fuzzy set theory; software agents; virtual reality; artificial life; computational model; computer animation; fuzzy set theory; intelligent virtual agent; personality based emotion model; Artificial intelligence; Computational intelligence; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Intelligent agent; Intelligent sensors; Marine animals; Psychology; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Natural Computation, 2008. ICNC '08. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jinan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3304-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNC.2008.805

Filename

4667794