Interactive Agents with Artificial Mind

This paper discusses an artificial mind model and its applications. The mind model is based on some theories which assert that emotion is an important function in human decision making. An artificial mind model with emotion is built, and the model is applied to action selection of autonomous agents. In three examples, the agents interact with humans and their environments. The examples show the proposed model effectively work in both virtual agents and real robots.

Authors:

• Hirohide Ushida

Keywords:

• Artificial mind
• emotion
• interactive agent
• pet robot

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