Cristina Battaglino
Published: Thursday, January 22, 2015
Il 28 gennaio, alle h. 11, in Sala seminari, si terrà l’esame finale di
Cristina Battaglino (XXVII ciclo, tutor Rossana Damiano)
Moral Emotional Agents: Linking Emotions with Moral Values and Deliberation
In recent years, a wide range of applications, such as training or pedagogical applications, has emerged in which intelligent agents are adopted to interact with the users or other agents in a social context. Such applications require intelligent agents to show an emotionally believable behavior and the capability of reasoning about the moral consequences of actions.
The thesis proposes the MEA (Moral Emotional Agent) theoretical model that, based on the notion of moral values and on moral emotion theories, allows an intelligent agent to reason about the moral consequences of its actions and to show believable emotional responses to its own and others' actions. The thesis discusses the application of the MEA model, implemented in a practical BDI agent architecture, to the field of virtual agents and describes how the MEA agent is perceived by human subjects involved in experiments.
The thesis proposes the MEA (Moral Emotional Agent) theoretical model that, based on the notion of moral values and on moral emotion theories, allows an intelligent agent to reason about the moral consequences of its actions and to show believable emotional responses to its own and others' actions. The thesis discusses the application of the MEA model, implemented in a practical BDI agent architecture, to the field of virtual agents and describes how the MEA agent is perceived by human subjects involved in experiments.
La Commissione sarà composta dai seguenti membri:
Vincenzo Moscato (Univ. Napoli), Gualtiero Volpe (Univ. Genova), Ruggero Pensa (Univ. Torino)
Supplenti: Antonio Picariello (Univ. Napoli), Antonio Camurri (Univ. Genova), Rosa Meo (Univ. Torino)