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Appraisal for a Character-Based Story-World

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2005)

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Dramatic story-worlds, i.e.,simulations inhabited by software actors for enacting (not necessarily explicitly anticipated) dramatically interesting plots, require situated software agents with emotional competences. The operationalisation of concepts from appraisal theories of emotion can contribute to providing flexible autonomous roleplayers for character-based approaches that reduce the required external macro-level control.

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  1. Rank, S., Petta, P.: Motivating Dramatic Interactions. In: Agents that Want and Like: Motivational and Emotional Roots of Cognition and Action, Proc. AISB 2005 Symposium, Univ. Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, April 12-15, pp. 102–107 (2005)

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  1. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Stefan Rank & Paolo Petta

  2. Dept.of Med.Cybernetics and AI, Centre for Brain Res., Med.Univ.of Vienna, Freyung 6/2, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Themis Panayiotopoulos

  2. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 13274 Fiji Way, 90292, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

    Jonathan Gratch

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  4. BT plc, Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  6. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

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Rank, S., Petta, P. (2005). Appraisal for a Character-Based Story-World. In: Panayiotopoulos, T., Gratch, J., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P., Rist, T. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550617_47

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