Novel literature is one of the literary genres that has a special place in Tamil literature. The novel was created to point out quality life people society. Solai Sundara Perumal best creators today's fictional world. In his Tappaattam, he documented biographies marginalized who are oppressed Pariyar, Pallar, and Sakiliya portrayed as enslaved by ruling class due their economic status caste sta...

Humans' predictions of another person's behaviour are regularly influenced by what they themselves might know or want. In a previous study, we found that male Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) could cater for their female partner's current desire when sharing food with her. Here, we tested the extent to which the males' decisions are influenced by their own current desire. When the males' and...

Social robots need to understand the affective state of the humans with whom they interact. Successful interactions require understanding mood and emotion in the short term, and personality and attitudes over longer periods. Social robots should also be able to infer the desires, wishes, and preferences of humans without being explicitly told. We investigate how effectively affective state can ...

In this paper we use formal argumentation theory to study the deliberation cycle of the BOID cognitive agent architecture. We combine goal generation with a planning approach recently proposed by Leila Amgoud. In her formal argumentation framework plans for fulfilling a desire are represented just like arguments that support a conclusion; the framework can thus deal with conflicting desires. In...

Humans are highly social creatures. Evidence from the dot perspective task suggests that humans automatically track the perspective of other individuals – a disposition that, if true, may help to facilitate social interaction. However, variants of the original dot perspective task suggest the alternative interpretation that the effect in the task is not due to perspective taking. Here, we prese...

Social psychological research demonstrates that the same behavior might lead to different evaluations depending on whether it is shown by a man or a woman. With a view to design decisions with regard to virtual humans it is relevant to test whether this pattern also applies to gendered virtual humans. In a 2x2 between subjects experiment we manipulated the Rapport Agent’s gaze behavior and its ...