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iCat: an affective game buddy based on anticipatory mechanisms

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International Conference on Autonomous Agents archive
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 3 table of contents

Estoril, Portugal

SESSION: Virtual agents track table of contents

Pages 1229-1232

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-0-9817381-2-X

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Iolanda Leite	Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal
Carlos Martinho	Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal
André Pereira	Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal
Ana Paiva	Technical University of Lisbon, Porto Salvo, Portugal

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
AAAI : Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence

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International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Richland, SC

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In this paper, we study the role of emotions and expressive behaviour in socially interactive characters employed in educational games. More specifically, on how we can use such emotional behaviour to help users to better understand the game state. An emotion model for these characters, which is mainly influenced by the current state of the game and is based on the emotivector anticipatory mechanism, was developed. We implemented the model in a social robot named iCat, using chess as the game scenario. The results of a preliminary evaluation suggested that the emotional behaviour embedded in the character indeed helped the users to have a better perception of the game.

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