MODELLING DIALOGUES WITH EMOTIONAL INTERACTIVE AGENTS

Cveta Martinovska, Stevo Bozinovski

2004

Abstract

The paper describes a possible approach to the design of believable dialogs between users and emotionally intelligent interactive agents capable of conveying emotional, verbal and non-verbal signals. User's affective profile is built according to the standard test in psychiatry and clinical psychology Emotions Profile Index. The agents have to predict and influence the behavior of users through communicative acts. The predictive power to a certain degree relies on expecting cooperation and on understanding user emotions, personality, interests and other mental states. Dialog automata are used to conceptualize the conversation between the users and the animated agents.

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Martinovska C. and Bozinovski S. (2004). MODELLING DIALOGUES WITH EMOTIONAL INTERACTIVE AGENTS . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 246-249. DOI: 10.5220/0002630502460249


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Cveta Martinovska and Stevo Bozinovski},
title={MODELLING DIALOGUES WITH EMOTIONAL INTERACTIVE AGENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={246-249},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002630502460249},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - MODELLING DIALOGUES WITH EMOTIONAL INTERACTIVE AGENTS
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Martinovska C.
AU - Bozinovski S.
PY - 2004
SP - 246
EP - 249
DO - 10.5220/0002630502460249