As artificially intelligent agents become more advanced, they will require corresponding advances in social capability. In particular, they will require an understanding of the development of relationships. This work is intended to aid in addressing this need. We have developed a model of the development of relationships, designed and implemented a planning module based on this model, and performed an evaluation study verifying the functionality of the model and implementation. This should provide a foundation for future work in developing artificially intelligent agents capable of appropriately dealing with the development of social relationships.

Creator

• Coon, William MacDowell

Contributors

• Rich, Charles
• Sidner, Candace

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Computer Science

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Language

• English

Identifier

• etd-082012-181747

Keyword

• Artificial Intelligence
• relationship modeling
• relationships
• virtual agents

Advisor

• Sidner, Candace
• Rich, Charles

Defense date

• 2012-08-06

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-08-20

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright