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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modelling Greed of Agents in Economical Context
A classical debate in economics addresses the advantages and drawbacks of modelling from a macroeconomics perspective as opposed to modelling from a microeconomics perspective. Form the latter psychological as...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Intelligent Virtual Agent to Increase Involvement in Financial Services
In order to enhance user involvement in financial services, this paper proposes to combine the idea of adaptive personalisation with intelligent virtual agents. To this end, a computational model for human dec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Comparing Three Computational Models of Affect
In aiming for behavioral fidelity, artificial intelligence cannot and no longer ignores the formalization of human affect. Affect modeling plays a vital role in faithfully simulating human emotion and in emoti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Virtual Therapist That Responds Empathically to Your Answers
Previous research indicates that self-help therapy is an effective method to prevent and treat unipolar depression. While web-based self-help therapy has many advantages, there are also disadvantages to self-h...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Incorporating Emotion Regulation into Virtual Stories
This paper presents an approach to incorporate emotion regulation as addressed within psychology literature into virtual characters. To this end, first Gross’ informal theory of emotion regulation has been for...