Architectural Roles of Affect and How to Evaluate Them in Artificial Agents

Matthias Scheutz
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Matthias Scheutz: Tufts University, USA

International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), 2011, vol. 2, issue 2, 48-65

Abstract: This paper examines the possibility of designing affective artificial agents by laying out a program for systematically defining and evaluating possible functional roles of affective states in architectures for virtual and robotic artificial agents. The author provides functional and architectural characterizations for simple and complex affective states, discusses possible interactions between affective and non-affective processes, and proposes an experimental evaluation framework that allows for the rigorous quantification of the utility of architectural components (for affective and non-affective agents alike). In doing so, it also provides a brief overview of past findings about the utility of affect mechanisms for artificial agents that were obtained following the proposed methodology.

Date: 2011
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