Dramaturgical and dissonance theories in explicit social context modeling for complex agents
Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
5-2015
Abstract
Expanding the spectrum of agent social capabilities is an important challenge in agent‐based simulation and other domains. While human‐like emotionality has been vastly explored in the last 20years, little research addresses explicit, psychologically believable social situation modeling. Recently, some important elements have been underlined: hybrid connectionist models outside formal ontologies; complex subjective representations linking culture, personality and norms, and so on, but proposed solutions do not provide a formalized structure of a social experience, expressive and well‐grounded in psychology. In this paper, we develop a new approach to social situation modeling based on the dramaturgical and dissonance theories. A new component (Dramaturgical Module) is described with implementation used to generate example behavior depicting new social modeling capabilities and a believable representation of the relevant psychological theories. We present a case scenario with a dramaturgical interpretation of dynamic social situations and related cognitive dissonances resulting in a simple and flexible classification. Easily usable in reasoning, planning or affect generation, dramaturgical interpretation is additionally presented here as basis of social affect generation.
Keywords
affective computing, dissonance theory, dramaturgical theory, social simulation
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Theory and Algorithms
Research Areas
Data Science and Engineering
Publication
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
Volume
26
Issue
3-4
First Page
247
Last Page
257
ISSN
1546-4261
Identifier
10.1002/cav.1639
Publisher
Wiley: 12 months
Citation
KOCHANOWICZ, Jaroslaw; TAN, Ah-hwee; and THALMANN, Daniel.
Dramaturgical and dissonance theories in explicit social context modeling for complex agents. (2015). Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. 26, (3-4), 247-257.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5257
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.1639