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HCI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Social Puppets: Towards Modular Social Animation for Agents and Avatars
State-of-the-art computer graphics can give autonomous agents a compelling appearance as animated virtual characters. Typically the agents are directly responsible for controlling ...
Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Chirag Merc...
COMMA
2006
15 years 8 months ago
Value-Based Argumentation for Democratic Decision Support
In this paper we discuss the integration of two systems that are based on a specific theory of argumentation: the first, an existing web-based discussion forum; the second, a metho...
Katie Atkinson
DAGSTUHL
2003
15 years 8 months ago
The Autotelic Principle
— The paper focuses on the problem how a community of distributed agents may autonomously invent and coordinate lexicons and grammars. Although our earlier experiments have shown...
Luc Steels
NIPS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Intrinsically Motivated Reinforcement Learning
Psychologists call behavior intrinsically motivated when it is engaged in for its own sake rather than as a step toward solving a specific problem of clear practical value. But wh...
Satinder P. Singh, Andrew G. Barto, Nuttapong Chen...
AAAI
1996
15 years 7 months ago
Motion and Color Analysis for Animat Perception
We propose novel gaze control algorithms for active perception in mobile autonomous agents with directable, foveated vision sensors. Our agents are realistic artificial animals, o...
Tamer F. Rabie, Demetri Terzopoulos