Agents that remember can tell stories: integrating autobiographic memory into emotional agents

For the past few years many new applications are being developed featuring interactive environments populated with autonomous virtual agents capable of acting according to their goals, beliefs and even social relations. Such agents must be able to interact with each other, and more importantly with the user, thus involving the users in an engaging narrative experience. To achieve these, in this paper we describe the essential event structure in an autobiographic memory, event reconstructions in memory retrieval process and the influences of such past events in interpersonal relations. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.0 [Artificial Intelligence]: General – cognitive simulation; J.4 [Social and Behavioral Sciences]: Psychology. General Terms Algorithms, Design, Human Factors. Keywords Autobiographic Memory and Agents, Believable Characters, Emergent Narrative.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Wan Ching Ho, João Dias, Rui Figueiredo, Ana Paiva
• Keywords: ATAL 2007, Autobiographic Memory, Autonomous Virtual Agents, Engaging Narrative Experience, Intelligent Agents