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Artificial companions are made to establish and maintain long-term relationships with users. In order to model the companion’s social relations and to capture its dynamics, we propose a neural network model based on a formal representation of social relations. Based on psychological theories, we characterize social relations over two dimensions, namely liking and dominance. These two dimensions are formally described as a combination of beliefs and goals of the agent’s mental state. Such a model allows us to automatically compute the social relation of a virtual agent towards its interlocutor depending on its beliefs and goals.
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Pecune, F., Ochs, M., Pelachaud, C. (2014). A Cognitive Model of Social Relations for Artificial Companions. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_42
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