This work explores developing inverse behavior language - in particular inverse HAP developed by Charles River Analytics to do plan and goal recognition. We use a combination of PPL and visualization to allow experts to correct behavior models encoded.
Publications:
To come.
Funders: ONR, CRA
How to develop agents that engender trust? In this project we experimented with embedding gestures that can evoke warmth and competence in virtual embodied characters.
Nguyen, T. H. D., Carstensdottir, E., Ngo, N., El-Nasr, M. S., Gray, M., Isaacowitz, D., & Desteno, D. (2015, August). Modeling warmth and competence in virtual characters. In International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 167-180). Springer, Cham. [pdf]
Funders: Northeastern University (tier 1 grant)
Publications:
Shergadwala, M. N., & Seif El-Nasr, M. (2021). Esports Agents with a Theory of Mind: Towards Better Engagement, Education, and Engineering. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04940. [PDF]
Partners: Co-Design Lab at UC Berkeley
Funders: CITRIS
This work explores the use of crowd sourcing and active analysis as a technique to acquire a narrative model that can encode theory of mind and social intelligence.
Funders: NSF