Center for Human Modeling and Simulation
Document Type
Conference Paper
Date of this Version
2010
Publication Source
Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Intelligent Virtual Agents
Volume
6356
Start Page
15
Last Page
27
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_2
Abstract
We describe a new organization for virtual human responses to dynamically occurring events. In our approach behavioral responses are enumerated in the representation of the event itself. These Smart Events inform an agent of plausible actions to undertake. We additionally introduce the notion of agent priming, which is based on psychological concepts and further restricts and simplifies action choice. Priming facilitates multi-dimensional agents and in combination with Smart Events results in reasonable, contextual action selection without requiring complex reasoning engines or decision trees. This scheme burdens events with possible behavioral outcomes, reducing agent computation to evaluation of a case expression and (possibly) a probabilistic choice. We demonstrate this approach in a small group scenario of agents reacting to a fire emergency.
Copyright/Permission Statement
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_2
Keywords
smart events, primed agents, agent-based simulation
Recommended Citation
Stocker, C., Huang, P., & Badler, N. I. (2010). Smart Events and Primed Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Intelligent Virtual Agents, 6356 15-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15892-6_2
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Date Posted: 13 January 2016
Comments
10th International Conference, IVA 2010, Philadelphia, PA, USA, September 20-22, 2010.