ICat: An affective game buddy based on anticipatory mechanisms

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1205-1208

  Leite, Iolanda ^a   Martinho, Carlos ^a   Pereira, André ^a   Paiva, Ana ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Autonomous agents; Educational games; Emotion; Social robots; Synthetic characters

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ANTICIPATION; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EMOTION; SOCIAL ROBOTS; SYNTHETIC CHARACTER;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84899896474     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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