When emotion does not mean loss of control

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo Imbert;Angélica de Antonio

  • Affiliations:
  • Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The traditional consideration that intelligent behaviors can only be produced from pure reasoning fails when trying to explain most of human behaviors, in which the emotional component has a decisive weight. However, although many different efforts have been made to consider emotions in the rational process, emotion is still perceived by many research areas as a non-desirable quality for a computational system. This is not the case of the field of believable agents, where emotions are well respected, although they are sometimes associated to a certain loss of control.This paper presents the mechanisms proposed by a generic cognitive architecture for agents with emotionally influenced behaviors, called COGNITIVA, to maintain behaviors control without giving up the richness provided by emotions. This architecture, together with a progressive specification process for its application, have been used successfully to model 3D intelligent virtual agents.