Silicon Coppélia: Integrating Three Affect-Related Models for Establishing Richer Agent Interaction

Affect modeling plays a vital role in faithfully simulating human emotion and in emotionally evocative technology. Current affect models are still strong simplifications compared to human affective complexity. To establish richer agent interaction, we integrated three affect-related models: CoMERG, IPEFiC ADM and EMA. These models partly overlap, and where distinct, they complement one another. The integrated model called Silicon Coppélia was implemented and simulation experiments were performed to test the behavior of the model. These experiments show that the model can simulate richer agent behaviors than any of the models could have done alone.