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Some Notes on the Possibile Role of Cognitive Architectures in Serious Games

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This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the possible role of cognitive architectures in the field of Serious Games. The seminal works that explore the use of Cognitive Architecture in games will be analyzed in the light of an emerging perspective of the games AI research area. Finally, an initial proposal of application of Cognitive Architecture for the design and implementation of non-player characters will be presented.

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    Manuel Gentile, Giuseppe Città & Mario Allegra

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Gentile, M., Città, G., Lieto, A., Allegra, M. (2019). Some Notes on the Possibile Role of Cognitive Architectures in Serious Games. In: Liapis, A., Yannakakis, G., Gentile, M., Ninaus, M. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11899. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34350-7_23

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