Non-Cooperative and Deceptive Virtual Agents
Abstract
Virtual agents that engage in dialogue with people can be used for a variety of purposes, including as service and information providers, tutors, confederates in psychology experiments, and role players in social training exercises. It seems reasonable that agents acting as service and information providers, and arguably as tutors, would be be truthful and cooperative. For other applications, however, such as roleplaying opponents, competitors, or more neutral characters in a training exercise, total honesty and cooperativeness would defeat the purpose of the exercise and fail to train people in coping with deception. The Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California has created several roleplaying characters, using different models of dialogue and uncooperative and deceptive behavior. This article briefly describes these models, as used in two different genres of dialogue agent: interviewing and negotiation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2012
- Accession Number
- AD1171370
Entities
People
- David R Traum
Organizations
- University of Southern California