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HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Models of Culture for Virtual Human Conversation
In this paper, we survey different types of Models of culture for virtual humans. Virtual humans are artificial agents that include both a visual human-like body and intelligent co...
David R. Traum
JAPLL
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Living up to one's commitments: Agency, strategies and trust
In human social interaction, the notions of commitment and trust are strongly interrelated. A formal model for this interrelation will enable artificial agents to benefit from the...
Thomas Müller
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Useful Roles of Emotions in Artificial Agents: A Case Study from Artificial Life
In this paper, we discuss the role of emotions in AI and possible ways to determine their utility for the design of artificial agents. We propose a research methodology for determ...
Matthias Scheutz
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Privacy and Artificial Agents, or, Is Google Reading My Email?
We investigate legal and philosophical notions of privacy in the context of artificial agents. Our analysis utilizes a normative account of privacy that defends its value and the ...
Samir Chopra, Laurence White
ECAI
2004
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Artificial Agents - Personhood in Law and Philosophy
Thinking about how the law might decide whether to extend legal personhood to artificial agents provides a valuable testbed for philosophical theories of mind. Further, philosophic...
Samir Chopra, Laurence White
SGAI
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Can Agents Without Concepts Think? An Investigation Using a Knowledge Based System
Grid-World is a working computer model which has been used to investigate the search capabilities of artificial agents that understand the world in terms of non-conceptual content...
Nicky Moss, Adrian Hopgood, Martin Weller