Modelling emotional effects on dialogue in a collaborative domain

Krystyna Doktor
Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Monash University

Friday, 31st March 2000
0930 - 1100

Rooms 3 & 4, 7th floor
Storey Hall, RMIT
Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Abstract:

A model of emotional agents is proposed, which integrates previous research done on emotions, personality, communicative agents and emotional agents.  The model is examined by generating dialogue between two agents in an ``escape'' scenario.  Their emotions are affected by their situation, personalities, and the dialogue between them.  People were surveyed to determine whether they could estimate the agents' personalities from the dialogue generated.  The surveys indicate that the model created could be successfully incorporated into an intelligent agent to produce more believable behaviour.

Biosketch:

Krystyna Doktor completed her honours degree in Computer Science at Monash University in 1999.  She is currently completing her Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, where she hopes to specialise in Computer Systems and Robotics.