Interacting with emotion and memory enabled virtual characters and social robots

Abstract

Personality and emotion modeling is being used recently in order to create variation in the behaviour of virtual characters and social robots and to make them socially intelligent for more engaged interaction with people. For these characters to be everyday social actors, it is also important that they can remember and maintain their feelings and establish unique emotional interpersonal relationships with people in a long-term manner. Thus they should be equipped with emotion and memory capabilities in order to remember interacted people and past exchanges with them. This chapter gives an overview of theories and applications on emotion, personality and memory enabled intelligent autonomous characters and mentions about our research on creating long-term emotional interactions with a social robot with human-like expression capability. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.