COGNITIVELY MOTIVATED EPISODIC MEMORY FOR A VIRTUAL GUIDE

Felix Rabe, Ipke Wachsmuth

2012

Abstract

This paper describes how the guiding capabilities of a virtual agent with a belief – desire – intention cognitive architecture can be enhanced by adding an episodic memory. We describe how the theories of episodic memory and event segmentation can be applied to the architecture of our virtual agent Max, and how to create an index according to the event indexing model. Having memories of past experiences will enable our agent to have improved plans how to react in future interaction.

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Rabe F. and Wachsmuth I. (2012). COGNITIVELY MOTIVATED EPISODIC MEMORY FOR A VIRTUAL GUIDE . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-95-9, pages 524-527. DOI: 10.5220/0003882205240527


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart12,
author={Felix Rabe and Ipke Wachsmuth},
title={COGNITIVELY MOTIVATED EPISODIC MEMORY FOR A VIRTUAL GUIDE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={524-527},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003882205240527},
isbn={978-989-8425-95-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - COGNITIVELY MOTIVATED EPISODIC MEMORY FOR A VIRTUAL GUIDE
SN - 978-989-8425-95-9
AU - Rabe F.
AU - Wachsmuth I.
PY - 2012
SP - 524
EP - 527
DO - 10.5220/0003882205240527