I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic Memory in Synthetic Characters

  • Authors:

  • João Dias;Wan Ching Ho;Thurid Vogt;Nathalie Beeckman;Ana Paiva;Elisabeth André

  • Affiliations:

  • INESC-ID and IST, Tagus Park, Av. Prof. Cavaco Silva, 2780-990 Porto Salvo, Portugal;University of Hertfordshire, School of Computer Science, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, UK;University of Augsburg, Multimedia concepts and applications, Eichleitnerstr. 30, 86159 Augsburg, Germany;University of Utrecht, Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands;INESC-ID and IST, Tagus Park, Av. Prof. Cavaco Silva, 2780-990 Porto Salvo, Portugal;University of Augsburg, Multimedia concepts and applications, Eichleitnerstr. 30, 86159 Augsburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ACII '07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

According to traditional animators, the art of building believable characters resides in the ability to successfully portray a character's behaviour as the result of its internal emotions, intentions and thoughts. Following this direction, we want our agents to be able to explicitly talk about their internal thoughts and report their personal past experiences. In order to achieve it, we look at a specific type of episodic long term memory. This paper describes the integration of Autobiographic Memory into FAtiMA, an emotional agent architecture that generates emotions from a subjective appraisal of events.