Requirements for an architecture for believable social agents

Guye-Vuillème, Anthony; Thalmann, Daniel

doi:10.1145/336595.336972

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“…Guye-Vuillème and Thalmann recently started to work on an architecture for believable social agents which is based on four sociological concepts: social norms, values, world view, and social role (see abstract [12]). …”

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Social role awareness in animated agents

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Ishizuka

2001

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents

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This paper promotes social role awareness as a desirable capability of animated agents, that are by now strong affective reasoners, but otherwise often lack the social competence observed with humans. In particular, humans may easily adjust their behavior depending on their respective role in a socio-organizational setting, whereas their synthetic pendants tend to be driven mostly by attitudes, emotions, and personality. Our main contribution is the incorporation of 'social filter programs' to mental models of animated agents. Those programs may qualify an agent's expression of its emotional state by the social context, thereby enhancing the agent's believability as a conversational partner or virtual teammate. Our implemented system is entirely webbased and demonstrates socially aware animated agents in an environment similar to Hayes-Roth's Cybercafé. Keywordsbelievability, social agents, human-like qualities of synthetic agents, social dimension in communication, affective reasoning and emotion expression

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Social role awareness in animated agents

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Ishizuka

2001

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents

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“…We present and develop our preceding work about this issue using the sociotogicaI literature [18]. Here are the functional requirements that we have identified.…”

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A high-level architecture for believable social agents

Guye-Vuillème

Thalmann

2000

Virtual Reality

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Abstract:The creation of virtual humans capable of behaving and interacting realistically with each other requires the development of autonomous believable social agents. Standard goal-oriented approaches are not well suited to it because they don't take into account important characteristics identified by the social sciences. This paper tackles the issue of a general social reasoning mechanism, discussing its basic functional requirements using a sociological perspective, and proposing a high-level architecture based on Roles, Norms, Values and Types.

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