A BDI dialogue agent for social support: specification of verbal support types

  • Authors:

  • J. M. van der Zwaan;V. Dignum;C. M. Jonker

  • Affiliations:

  • Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan, BX Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan, BX Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg, CD Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

An important task for empathic agents is to provide social support, that is, to help alleviate emotional distress. In this paper, we select five types of verbal social support (sympathy, compliment, encouragement, advice, and teaching) and present our implementation in a prototype dialogue agent.