Emotion-Based Synthetic Characters in Games

Author

Huang, Xiangyang ; Peng, Yan

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Eng., Capital Normal Univ., Beijing

Volume

6

fYear

2008

fDate

18-20 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

36

Abstract

An emotion-based synthetic character (ESC) is proposed to enhance game entertainment and to highly personalize human-machine communication in games. The model of the ESC integrates emotional system with attention, intention and facial expression system. Forgetting characteristic of human is also simulated to make the ESC be equal to player characters. Fuzzy representation is used to capture the inherent uncertainty of emotion and cognition. As a result, an experiment implements the model.

Keywords

computer games; emotion recognition; face recognition; fuzzy set theory; man-machine systems; emotion-based synthetic characters; emotional system; facial expression; fuzzy representation; game entertainment; human-machine communication; Artificial intelligence; Biological control systems; Biological system modeling; Biological systems; Cognition; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Humans; Man machine systems; Uncertainty; emotion; game artificial intelligence; nonplayer character; synthetic character;

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.2008.167

Filename

4667798