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I Know What I Did Last Summer: Autobiographic Memory in Synthetic Characters

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Nathalie Beeckman,

Elisabeth AndréAuthors Info & Claims

ACII '07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

Pages 606 - 617

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_53

Published: 12 September 2007 Publication History

Abstract

According to traditional animators, the art of building believable characters resides in the ability to successfully portray a character's behaviour as the result of its internal emotions, intentions and thoughts. Following this direction, we want our agents to be able to explicitly talk about their internal thoughts and report their personal past experiences. In order to achieve it, we look at a specific type of episodic long term memory. This paper describes the integration of Autobiographic Memory into FAtiMA, an emotional agent architecture that generates emotions from a subjective appraisal of events.

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