The role of emotion in believable agents
Communications of the ACM
Interactive environments for music and multimedia
Multimedia Systems - Special issue on audio and multimedia
Interactive environments for music and multimedia
Multimedia Systems - Special issue on audio and multimedia
ICMAI '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence
Embodied emotional agent in intelligent training system
Recent advances in intelligent paradigms and applications
EyesWeb: Toward Gesture and Affect Recognition in Interactive Dance and Music Systems
Computer Music Journal
Applying data fusion in a rational decision making with emotional regulation
50 years of artificial intelligence
Automated analysis of non-verbal affective and social behaviour
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Affective interaction in natural environments
Construction of virtual assistant based on basic emotions theory
ACII'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
GW'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction
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We propose a general, flexible, and powerful architecture to build emotional agents, that is, software agents that embed artificial emotions. By artificial emotions we mean information and computations achieving functionalities that relate to conveying emotions to humans, thus allowing more effective, stimulating, and natural interactions between humans and agents. An emotional agent also possesses rational knowledge and reactive capabilities, and is able to interact with the external world, including other agents. We are successfully employing our architecture in various real-world multimedia-multimodal systems, for example in Città dei Bambini (Children's City), a permanent science exhibition (exploratorium) in Genoa (Italy), where children can learn by playing. We describe an instantiation of our architecture, namely the emotional agent that we designed and implemented for a navigating and speaking robot which acts as a guide in Città dei Bambini.