Integrating affective computing into animated tutoring agents.

Clark Elliott
Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence
School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems
DePaul University, South Wabash Ave., Chicago, IL 60604
email: elliott@ils.nwu.edu, http://condor.depaul.edu/ elliott
James C. Lester
North Carolina State University
lester@eos.ncsu.edu, http://multimedia.ncsu.edu/imedia
Jeff Rickel
Information Sciences Institute
rickel@isi.edu, http://www.isi.edu/isd/VET/vet.html

 
• Introduction
• Objectives
• The Affective Reasoning Platform
• Sample components of an emotion structure for tutoring architectures
• Creating virtual affective states in Steve
  • Overview of Steve and Affective Reasoning
  • Emotion antecedents in Steve
    • Sample goals for various Steves
    • Sample principles for various Steves
    • Extended examples
    • Other notes
  • Emotion intensity in Steve
    • The simulation-event and stable-disposition emotion intensity variables
    • Selected notes on emotion intensity
• Affective User Modeling
  • Herman the Bug
  • Overview of Affective User modeling Architecture
  • Examples of user goals and principles to be modeled.
    • Sample user goals - what does the user want?
    • Sample user principles - what does the user believe are right and wrong actions?
• Closing
• References
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