Title
Emotionally Expressive Agents
Abstract
The ability to express emotions is important for creating believable interactive characters. To simulate emotional expressions in an interactive environment, an intelligent agent needs both an adaptive model for generating believable responses, and a visualization model for mapping emotions into facial expressions. Recent advances in intelligent agents and in facial modeling have produced effective algorithms for these tasks independently. In this paper, we describe a method for integrating these algorithms to create an interactive simulation of an agent that produces appropriate facial expressions in a dynamic environment. Our approach to combining a model of emotions with a facial model represents a first step towards developing the technology of a truly believable interactive agent, which has a wide range of applications from designing intelligent training systems to video games and animation tools.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/CA.1999.781198
CA
Keywords
Field
DocType
animation,user interfaces,emotional expression,application software,computational modeling,facial expressions,software agents,visualization,intelligent agent,computer science,emotional expressions,facial expression,computer animation
Intelligent agent,Computer science,Interactive simulation,Software agent,Facial expression,Emotional expression,Animation,Computer animation,User interface,Multimedia
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1087-4844
0-7695-0167-2
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.96
9
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Magy Seif El-nasr164773.17
Thomas R. Ioerger262359.10
John Yen391.96
Donald H. House451355.27
Frederic I. Parke5115114.12