Creating adaptive affective autonomous NPCs

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 287-311

  Lim, Mei Yii ^a   Dias, João ^b   Aylett, Ruth ^a   Paiva, Ana ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Action regulation; Adaptive autonomous agents; Computer games; Educational role play game; Emotional model; Motivational system; Personality; Planning

Indexed keywords

ACTION REGULATION; COMPUTER GAMES; MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEM; PERSONALITY; ROLE PLAY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PLANNING;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84855533209     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-010-9161-2     Document Type: Article

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