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Emotional AgentEmotional Agent

Yao WangJian Liu

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Problem DescriptionProblem Description

Background– Distribution of limited resource– User’s emotional expression – Implied reaction

Problem Definition– Does one’s feeling influence other’s behavior?– Does the implied reaction have impacts?

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Research Approach (1)Research Approach (1)

Emotional agents model peer users– Happy

– Satisfied

– Neutral

– Sad

– Angry

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Research Approach (2)Research Approach (2)

A little gambling game is deployed – User plays the game– Agents give prediction

High accuracy/low accuracy/unknown

User distributes awards (resource) Agents express their feelings User can change the distribution

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Research Approach (3)Research Approach (3)

Agents’ behaviors are affected by their feeling– Increase prediction accuracy when happy– Decrease prediction accuracy when angry– The amount of changing varies – Boundary of prediction accuracy

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Interface (1)Interface (1)

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Interface (2)Interface (2)

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Agent ClassesAgent Classes

Agents not changing their behaviours– Agents with high performance– Agents with low performance

Agents changing their behaviours– Agents with high performance (big or small)– Agents with low performance (big or small)

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GoalsGoals

1. How do users assign limited resource to different agents with different strength of relationship, strong, weak or unknown?

2. How do the emotions (happy, angry, sad) influence the user’s behavior?