AMIA: A knowledge representation model for computational autobiographic agents

Abstract

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Towards Learning ‘Self' and Emotional Knowledge in Social and Cultural Human-Agent Interactions

“…Our previous research also includes the investigation of how the engagement of users can be increased in an interaction through the inclusion of believable agents with their own emotions and autobiographic memory (Ho et al, 2007a;2007b). Specifically, in Ho et al (2007a), we incorporated the psychological view that emotions can arise in response to both internal and external events.…”

“…Each of them has an abstraction generated for representing general meanings to the agent itself during different periods of its lifetime in a temporal sequence. The technical design for this model can be found in (Ho et al, 2007b).…”

“…Supporting Emotional Coping: In Ho et al (2007a) we showed that FearNot! agents (child-like characters inhabiting a virtual environment designed to teach school children how to better cope with bullying) possessing a simplified version of autobiographic memory can express their emotion by remembering past significant events (Ho et al, 2007;Dias et al, 2007). In Fear-Not!…”

“…emotions) of the target agents as closely as possible -perception of the target agent's feelings is a projection of the self. From the long-term autobiographic memory base, agents can remember past experiences which associate with specific physical-psychological states individually, as described in Ho et al (2007b). When a target agent's physicalpsychological states are perceived by the empathiser (an agent that possesses autobiographic memory) then the empathiser will attempt to "imagine" a series of events in order to understand the target agent's situation.…”

“…3. Rehearsal of the most appropriate experience: after all relevant experiences are retrieved from the autobiographic memory base and reconstructed with general event representations (Ho et al, 2007b), the empathiser selects the most similar experiences to rehearse internally 12 . The selected experience can bring the closest physical-psychological states (perceived from the target agent) to a) itself -if the experience is from its own or to b) other agents -if the experience was derived from storytelling or observation.…”