AI Lectures series - Vadim Bulitko - Modeling Culturally and Emotionally Affected Behavior

On Thursday, October 16, Vadim Bulitko (University of Alberta) will give a lecture entitled "Modeling Culturally and Emotionally Affected Behavior" at 15:00-16:00 in K-5 in Kringlan.

Culture and emotions have a profound impact on human behavior. Consequently, high-fidelity simulated interactive environments (e.g., trainers and computer games) that involve virtual humans must model socio-cultural and emotional effects on agent behavior. In this paper we discuss two recently fielded systems that do so independently: Culturally Affected Behavior (CAB) and EMotion and Adaptation (EMA). We then propose a simple language that combines the two systems in a natural way thereby enabling simultaneous simulation of culturally and emotionally affected behavior. The proposed language is based on matrix algebra and can be easily implemented on single- or multi-core hardware with an off-the-shelf matrix package (e.g., MATLAB or a C++ library). We then show how to extend the combined culture and emotion model with an explicit representation of religion and personality profiles.

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Vadim Bulitko is an associate professor at the Department of Computing Science at University of Alberta, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999. His interests are in strong Artificial Intelligence, creativity and cognition. Vadim's primary contributions are in the area of real-time heuristic search. He has also worked in emotion and culture modeling in virtual trainers, player modeling for adaptive story telling in role-playing video games, enemy prediction in tactical first-person shooters, hiding and seeking spatial patterns in human behavior and other areas. In doing so, Vadim has collaborated with Bioware Corp., Reykjavik University, Queensland University of Technology, Canadian Forestry Service, Syncrude Research and other institutions. He is spending this fall term at Reykjavik University as a part of his sabbatical.

AI Lectures series - Vadim Bulitko - Modeling Culturally and Emotionally Affected Behavior

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