Using emotions for the development of human-agent societies<FootNote> Project supported by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad of the Spanish Government and the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union (No. TIN2015-65515-C4-1-R) </FootNote><FootNote> A preliminary version was presented at the 13th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, June 3–4, 2015, Spain </FootNote>

Abstract

Human-agent societies refer to applications where virtual agents and humans coexist and interact transparently into a fully integrated environment. One of the most important aspects in this kind of applications is including emotional states of the agents (humans or not) in the decision-making process. In this sense, this paper presents the applicability of the JaCalIVE (Jason Cartago implemented intelligent virtual environment) framework for developing this kind of society. Specifically, the paper presents an ambient intelligence application where humans are immersed into a system that extracts and analyzes the emotional state of a human group. A social emotional model is employed to try to maximize the welfare of those humans by playing the most appropriate music in every moment.

Keywords

Multi-agent systems / Virtual environments / Emotional agents

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