A tool for animated agents in network-based negotiation

Author

Yuasa, Masahide ; Yasumura, Yoshiaki ; Nitta, Katsumi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. intelligence & Syst. Sci., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

31 Oct.-2 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

259

Lastpage

264

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a tool for developing animated agents with facial expressions in negotiation through a computer network. The tool learns a user´s tendency to select facial expressions of the animated agent, and generates facial expressions instead of human. In order to estimate facial expressions, the tool has an emotional model constructed by Bayesian network. We can easily develop animated agents if we use this tool as a component. And we describe the estimation of an opponent´s emotional state, based on observed data, by using the Bayesian network.

Keywords

belief networks; computer animation; computer networks; face recognition; graphical user interfaces; negotiation support systems; software agents; Bayesian network; animated agents; computer network; facial expressions; network-based negotiation; Application software; Bayesian methods; Computational intelligence; Computer networks; Facial animation; Humans; Intelligent networks; Proposals; Speech synthesis; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2003. Proceedings. ROMAN 2003. The 12th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8136-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2003.1251855

Filename

1251855