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Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015)

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This paper discusses the process of creating agents that are capable of socially interacting with each other and forming groups in a similar way to humans, without losing their autonomy. Our approach is to model group behaviour in autonomous agents by using FIRO (Fundamental Interpersonal Relationship Orientation) theory to add interpersonal drives to the existing FAtiMA- PSI architecture. This extends it for social agents that act as a collective group, and thus increasing their believability in-group situations.

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  1. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Naziya Hussaini & Ruth Aylett

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  1. Naziya Hussaini
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  1. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Willem-Paul Brinkman

  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Joost Broekens

  3. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Dirk Heylen

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Hussaini, N., Aylett, R. (2015). Modelling Group Behaviour in Autonomous Synthetic Characters. In: Brinkman, WP., Broekens, J., Heylen, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21996-7_14

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