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This research explores the influence of users' emotional expressions and implied reactions on the behavior of emotional agents in a distribution of limited resources. It examines how users assign resources to agents with different relationship strengths and how emotions impact user behavior.
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Emotional Agent Yao Wang Jian Liu April 8, 2003
Problem Description • Background • Distribution of limited resource • User’s emotional expression • Implied reaction • Problem Definition • Does one’s feeling influence other’s behavior? • Does the implied reaction have impacts?
Research Approach (1) • Emotional agents model peer users • Happy • Satisfied • Neutral • Sad • Angry
Research Approach (2) • A little gambling game is deployed • User plays the game • Agents give prediction • High accuracy/low accuracy/unknown • User distributes awards (resource) • Agents express their feelings • User can change the distribution
Research Approach (3) • Agents’ behaviors are affected by their feeling • Increase prediction accuracy when happy • Decrease prediction accuracy when angry • The amount of changing varies • Boundary of prediction accuracy
Agent Classes • Agents not changing their behaviours • Agents with high performance • Agents with low performance • Agents changing their behaviours • Agents with high performance (big or small) • Agents with low performance (big or small)
Goals • How do users assign limited resource to different agents with different strength of relationship, strong, weak or unknown? • How do the emotions (happy, angry, sad) influence the user’s behavior?