Modeling a user's emotion and personality in a computer user interface
US5987415A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 30, 1998 |
| Grant date | Nov 16, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 30, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/4663
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention is embodied in a computer user interface including an observer capable of observing user behavior, an agent capable of conveying emotion and personality by exhibiting corresponding behavior to a user, and a network linking user behavior observed by said observer and emotion and personality conveyed by said agent. The network can include an observing network facilitating inferencing user emotional and personality states from the behavior observed by the observer as well as an agent network facilitating inferencing of agent behavior from emotion and personality states to be conveyed by the agent. In addition, a policy module can dictate to the agent network desired emotion and personality states to be conveyed by the agent based upon user emotion and personality states inferred by the observing network. Typically, each network is a stochastic model. Each stochastic model is preferably a Bayesian network, so that the observing network is a first Bayesian network while the agent network is a second Bayesian network. Generally, the first and second Bayesian networks are similar copies of one another. Each of the two Bayesian networks include a first layer of multi-state no…
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