Emotionally Responsive Robotic Avatars as Characters in Virtual Worlds

Author

Slater, Stuart ; Burden, David

Author_Institution

Univ. of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 March 2009

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

19

Abstract

This paper presents recent work on the addition of emotions and affective behaviour to robotic avatars within second life, as part of continuing research and development in the area of interactive agents for games and simulations. The development is based upon the E-AI architecture which is a proposed computational model of emotions intended to be used by developers who already have their own agent AI systems. In this work, the E-AI architecture was applied to a currently existing commercial AI and chatbot architecture.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; avatars; computer games; control engineering computing; robots; software agents; E-AI architecture; chatbot architecture; computer game; interactive agent; robotic avatar; software agent; virtual world; Artificial intelligence; Avatars; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Legged locomotion; Navigation; Research and development; Robots; Second Life; Virtual environment; AI; Emotion Modeling; Virtual Worlds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, 2009. VS-GAMES '09. Conference in

Conference_Location

Coventry

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3588-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VS-GAMES.2009.7

Filename

5116548