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Moral emotions play an important role in the design and implementation of virtual agents, since they have implications not only for the agent’s deliberation process but also for its interactional and social functions. In this paper, we propose an empirical methodology that leverages narrative situations to evaluate the emotional state felt by an intelligent agent.
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Battaglino, C., Damiano, R. (2014). Narrative Scenarios as a Testbed for Moral Agents. 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_5
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