Clark Elliott
The Institute for the Learning Sciences Institute for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Northwestern University DePaul University
1890 Maple Avenue 243 South Wabash Ave
Evanston, Illinois, 60201 Chicago, Illinois 60604
email: elliott@ils.nwu.edu
Greg Siegle
The Institute for the Learning Sciences
email: siegle@ils.nwu.edu
An important, yet minimally explored, aspect of emotion simulation is the
way in which changes in emotion eliciting situations can give rise to
different intensities in the resulting emotion instances. Using the work of
Ortony, et al. [Ortony et al.
1988] as a guide, we propose a set of emotion
intensity variables to be used in modeling the causes of varying emotion
intensity, and discuss their implementation within the coarse-grained
simulation environment of the Affective Reasoner [Elliott1992], a
program that reasons about emotion. These variables, our motivation for
selecting them, and portions of two functions which use them in computing
simulated emotion intensities, are presented in this paper.