The use of emotions to create believable agents in a virtual environment

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 161-168

  Selvarajah, Karthi ^a   Richards, Debbie ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotion based agent architecture; Ostracism; Psychology; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EMOTION-BASED AGENT ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT COMPONENTS; OSTRACISM; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33644808700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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