Rational or Emotional User

From Rational to Emotional Agents

This paper presents the Emotional-Belief-DesireIntention architecture which reflects humans’ practical reasoning by adding the influence of primary and secondary emotions into the decision making process of a traditional BDI architecture. Our architecture handles bounded resources by using primary emotions as the first filter for adjusting the priority of beliefs, thereby allowing the agents to...

Inferring Perceived Demographics from User Emotional Tone and User-Environment Emotional Contrast

We examine communications in a social network to study user emotional contrast – the propensity of users to express different emotions than those expressed by their neighbors. Our analysis is based on a large Twitter dataset, consisting of the tweets of 123,513 users from the USA and Canada. Focusing on Ekman’s basic emotions, we analyze differences between the emotional tone expressed by these...

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Interactive Agents for Multimodal Emotional User Interaction

In this paper, Maxine, a powerful engine to develop applications with embodied animated agents is presented. The engine, based on the use of opensource libraries, enables multimodal real-time interaction with the user: via text, voice, images and gestures. Maxine virtual agents can establish emotional communication with the user through their facial expressions, the modulation of the voice and ...

Patterns, prototypes, performance: classifying emotional user states

In this paper, we report on classification results for emotional user states (4 classes, German database of children interacting with a pet robot). Starting with 5 emotion labels per word, we obtained chunks with different degrees of prototypicality. Six sites computed acoustic and linguistic features independently from each other. A total of 4232 features were pooled together and grouped into ...