Integrating Cognitive Architectures into Virtual Character Design


Integrating Cognitive Architectures into Virtual Character Design (2016) .. edited by Jeremy O. Turner etc


Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgment

Chapter 1
On Vision-Based Human-Centric Virtual Character Design: A Closer Look at the Real World from a Virtual One

Eugene Borovikov, PercepReal, USA
Ilya Zavorin, PercepReal, USA
Sergey Yershov, PercepReal, USA

Chapter 2
Integrating ACT-R Cognitive Models with the Unity Game Engine

Paul Richard Smart, University of Southampton, UK
Tom Scutt, Mudlark, UK
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nigel R. Shadbolt, University of Oxford, UK

Chapter 3
A Graphical Tool for the Creation of Behaviors in Virtual Worlds

Andrea Corradini, Design School Kolding, Denmark
Manish Mehta, Accenture Technology Lab, USA

Chapter 4
Learned Behavior: Enabling Believable Virtual Characters through Reinforcement

Jacquelyne Forgette, Western University, Canada
Michael Katchabaw, Western University, Canada

Chapter 5
Personality-Based Cognitive Design of Characters in Virtual Environments

Maryam Saberi, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Chapter 6
The Contemporary Craft of Creating Characters Meets Today’s Cognitive Architectures: A Case Study in Expressivity

Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
John Licato, Indiana University/Purdue University – Fort Wayne, USA
Alexander Bringsjord, Motalen, Inc., USA

Chapter 7
Virtual Soar-Agent Implementations: Examples, Issues, and Speculations

Jeremy Owen Turner, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Chapter 8
Towards Truly Autonomous Synthetic Characters with the Sigma Cognitive Architecture

Volkan Ustun, University of Southern California, USA
Paul S. Rosenbloom, University of Southern California, USA

Chapter 9
A Universal Architecture for Migrating Cognitive Agents: A Case Study on Automatic Animation Generation

Kaveh Hassani, University of Ottawa, Canada
Won-Sook Lee, University of Ottawa, Canada

Chapter 10
Game AGI beyond Characters

Alexander Zook, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Conclusion
Compilation of References
About the Contributors
Index