From 2006, Online updates of Affective Reasoning Papers:

Online papers Look here first.

[Last updated 1999 below this line]

Preliminary Home Page to make emotion pubs available via web

Summary information about Clark Elliott and the Affective Reasoner .

Research Papers HTML versions

• Why Boys like Motorcycles: using emotion theory to find structure in humorous stories.
• Draft of AI magazine submission Research paradigms for agents as synthetic characters.
• Autonomous Agents '98 submission draft Using the Affective Reasoning paradigm as a basis for Story Morphing.
• IJCAI '97 workshop on Intelligent Interface Agents Integrating affective computing into animated tutoring agents.
• AI in Education '97 workshop on Pedagogical Agents Affective Reasoner personality models for automated tutoring systems
• ACM's Intelligence97 Discussion of how the AR approaches three of the Holy Grail specified by Danny Hillis in his keynote address to Autonomous Agents 97, combined with a study showing expressive capabilities of the AR agents.
• Autonomous Agents 97 Study showing expressive capabilities of the AR agents.

Research Papers -- hack HTML versions, use to preview:

• AAAI Spring Symposium on Mental States 93 Emotion Intensity Variables
• AAAI conference 94 Research Problems in Emotion Representation
• Informal HTML version of The Gift of the Magi Revisited, and Revisited...

Research Papers (postscript only):

In most cases the formal citation for each paper appears in its own bibliography, marked as THIS PAPER.

These reprints are in postscript format. Clicking on them should allow you to ftp them to your home site for printing.

• The Affective Reasoner, 1992 Clark Elliott's dissertation. The Affective Reasoner: A process model of emotions in a multi-agent system. Institute for the Learning Sciences Tech. Report #32. (long)
• Draft submission to Autonomous Agents '97 Early results and discussion of a comparison between our computer agents and a human actor in conveying meaning in otherwise ambiguous sentences.
• AAAI conference 94 Research Problems in Emotion Representation
• IJCAI conference 93 Representing Four Personalities in the Affective Reasoner
• Cognitive Science Conference 92 Point of view: Reasoning about the emotions of others
• Japanese Cognitive Science Society 94 Early (English) draft of JCSS article on two-way emotion communication between humans and computers. (Finished version published in Japanese.)
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Interactive Story Systems 95 Emotion as a necessary and suffiencent element of story construction
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Believable Agents 94 Emotionally Believable Agents
• Incorrect (early) version here before 1-9-96. Please destroy and replace with this version. Thanks: AAAI Summer Symposium on AI and Entertainment 94 Poker Playing Agents
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Mental States 93 Emotion Intensity Variables
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation 92 Knowledge Representation Issues in AR
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Representation 92 Response to Bill Clancey on Knowledge Rep. Issues (short)

DePaul students (and former students) associated with the project

• Michael Bailey
• Jacek Brzezinski
• Eric Carlino
• Brian Hirt
• Robert Salvatoriello
• Sanjay Sheth
• Stuart Marquis
• Ernst Melchior
• Yee-Yee Yang