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An Affective Agent Playing Tic-Tac-Toe as Part of a Healing Environment

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Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2009)

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Abstract

There is a growing belief that the environment plays an important role in the healing process of patients, supported by empirical findings. Previous research showed that psychological stress caused by loneliness can be reduced by artificial companions. As a pilot application for this purpose, this paper presents an affective agent playing tic-tac-toe with the user. Experimenting with a number of agents under different parameter settings shows the agent is able to show human-like emotional behavior, and can make decisions based on rationality as well as on affective influences. After discussing the application with clinical experts and making improvements where needed, the application can be tested in a clinical setting in future research.

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  1. Center for Advanced Media Research Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Matthijs Pontier & Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui

  2. Department of Artificial Intelligence, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Matthijs Pontier & Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui

  3. Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 45320, Pakistan

    Ghazanfar Farooq Siddiqui

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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea

    Jung-Jin Yang

  2. Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Department of Informatics, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Yokoo

  3. School of Techno-Business Administration, Dept. of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, 466-8555, Nagoya, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  4. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, 100871, Beijing, China

    Zhi Jin

  5. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Paul Scerri

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Pontier, M., Siddiqui, G.F. (2009). An Affective Agent Playing Tic-Tac-Toe as Part of a Healing Environment. In: Yang, JJ., Yokoo, M., Ito, T., Jin, Z., Scerri, P. (eds) Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5925. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11161-7_3

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