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Agents and Affect: Why Embodied Agents Need Affective Systems

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This paper discusses why intelligent embodied agents – concentrating on the case of graphically- embodied agents – require affective systems. It discusses the risks involved in attempting to produce naturalistic expressive behaviour, and examines the specific case of facial expression generation. It considers the approach taken by the EU Framework 5 project VICTEC to facial expressions and then discusses some of the issues in affective architectures needed to drive facial expressiveness in an autonomous Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA).

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    Ruth S. Aylett

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  1. Info and Communication Systems Eng, Aegean University, 83200, Karlovassi, Samos, Greece

    George A. Vouros

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Themistoklis Panayiotopoulos

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Aylett, R.S. (2004). Agents and Affect: Why Embodied Agents Need Affective Systems. In: Vouros, G.A., Panayiotopoulos, T. (eds) Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. SETN 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24674-9_52

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