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Expressing the Personality of an Intelligent Room through Ambient Output Modalities

Authors:
Jean-Paul Sansonnet
Yacine Bellik

Keywords: Personification, Ambient output modalities, Expression of emotions and traits.

Abstract:
Abstract—This paper deals with user friendly interfaces in ambient computing and its applications. In order to build more friendly ambient systems, some authors have proposed that the agent controlling the system should be provided with a mental model and should express personality traits and emotions “as if it were a person”. Recent research in this domain is mainly based on the mediation of the ambient system by an animated virtual character, often endorsing the role of assistant. However, users can be distracted and side-tracked by such characters and even feel that they lose the control of the system. We explore here the feasibility of the direct expression of the emotional states and personality traits of the mental model of an ambient agent directly through the specific output physical modalities. First, we propose an alternative to the mediated architecture together with its specific agent model. Then, through two typical examples, we show how emotions and traits can be mapped onto ambient output modalities.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: September 29, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2326-9324

ISBN: 978-1-61208-309-4

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from September 29, 2013 to October 3, 2013