Modeling social inference in virtual agents

Authors: Wenji Mao Jonathan Gratch

Publish Date: 2009/02/24

Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-11

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Abstract

Social judgment is a social inference process whereby an agent singles out individuals to blame or credit for multiagent activities Such inferences are a key aspect of social intelligence that underlie social planning social learning natural language pragmatics and computational models of emotion With the advance of multiagent interactive systems and the need of designing socially aware systems and interfaces to interact with people it is increasingly important to model this humancentric form of social inference Based on psychological attribution theory this paper presents a general computational framework to automate social inference based on an agent’s causal knowledge and observations of interactionThis work was sponsored by the US Army Research Development and Engineering Command RDECOM and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under the grant FA95500610206 The content does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government and no official endorsement should be inferred The work was supported in part by NNSFC grants 60621001 and 60875028 MOST grant 2006AA010106 and CAS grants KGCX2YW122 and 2F07C01 and the grant funded by CAS Intelligent Information Processing Open Lab in China

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