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Statistical mechanics has proven to be able to capture the fundamental rules underlying phenomena of social aggregation and opinion dynamics, well studied in disciplines like sociology and psychology. This approach is based on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-09 Daniele Vilone , Timoteo Carletti , Franco Bagnoli , Andrea Guazzini

We present a novel approach for generating plausible verbal interactions between virtual human-like agents and user avatars in shared virtual environments. Sense-Plan-Ask, or SPA, extends prior work in propositional planning and natural…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Andrew Best , Sahil Narang , Dinesh Manocha

To build a safe system that would replicate and perhaps transcend human-level intelligence, three basic modules: objective, agent, and perception are proposed for development. The objective module would ensure that the system acts in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ion Dronic

Group decision-making processes frequently suffer when social influence and power dynamics suppress minority viewpoints, leading to compliance and groupthink. Conversational agents can counteract these harmful dynamics by encouraging…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Soohwan Lee , Seoyeong Hwang , Dajung Kim , Kyungho Lee

This paper introduces DeepPsy-Agent, an innovative psychological support system that combines the three-stage helping theory in psychology with deep learning techniques. The system consists of two core components: (1) a multi-stage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Kai Chen , Zebing Sun

In the future, artificial learning agents are likely to become increasingly widespread in our society. They will interact with both other learning agents and humans in a variety of complex settings including social dilemmas. We argue that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Tobias Baumann

Peer agents can supplement real-time collaborative learning in asynchronous online courses. Constructive Controversy (CC) theory suggests that humans deepen their understanding of a topic by confronting and resolving controversies. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Thitaree Tanprasert , Young-ho Kim , Sidney Fels , Dongwook Yoon

This work-in-progress paper presents SPARC (Systematic Problem Solving and Algorithmic Reasoning for Children), a gamified learning platform designed to enhance engagement and knowledge retention in K-12 STEM education. Traditional…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chengzhang Zhu , Cecile H. Sam , Yanlai Wu , Ying Tang

In this project, we designed an intelligent assistant player for the single-player game Space Invaders with the aim to provide a satisfying co-op experience. The agent behaviour was designed using reinforcement learning techniques and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ajay Krishnan , Niranj Jyothish , Xun Jia

Collaborative reasoning with multiple agents offers the potential for more robust and diverse problem-solving. However, existing approaches often suffer from homogeneous agent behaviors and lack of reflective and rethinking capabilities. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jian Zhang , Zhiyuan Wang , Zhangqi Wang , Fangzhi Xu , Qika Lin , Lingling Zhang , Rui Mao , Erik Cambria , Jun Liu

Over the last few years, the concept of Artificial Intelligence has become central in different tasks concerning both our daily life and several working scenarios. Among these tasks automated planning has always been central in the AI…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Francesco Fabiano

Several recent works have found the emergence of grounded compositional language in the communication protocols developed by mostly cooperative multi-agent systems when learned end-to-end to maximize performance on a downstream task.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Paul Pu Liang , Jeffrey Chen , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Louis-Philippe Morency , Satwik Kottur

As the interest in Artificial Intelligence continues to grow it is becoming more and more important to investigate formalization and tools that allow us to exploit logic to reason about the world. In particular, given the increasing number…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Francesco Fabiano

We demonstrate the importance of persona-based multi-agents brainstorming for both diverse topics and subject matter ideation. Prior work has shown that generalized multi-agent collaboration often provides better reasoning than a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Nate Straub , Saara Khan , Katharina Jay , Brian Cabral , Oskar Linde

Towards human-like dialogue systems, current emotional dialogue approaches jointly model emotion and semantics with a unified neural network. This strategy tends to generate safe responses due to the mutual restriction between emotion and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yushan Qian , Bo Wang , Shangzhao Ma , Wu Bin , Shuo Zhang , Dongming Zhao , Kun Huang , Yuexian Hou

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, designing the agent's characteristics is crucial for shaping user experience. This workshop aims to establish a research community focused on AI agent persona design for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Nima Zargham , Mateusz Dubiel , Smit Desai , Thomas Mildner , Hanz-Joachim Belz

Large language models have enabled agents of all kinds to interact with users through natural conversation. Consequently, agents now have two jobs: conversing and planning/reasoning. Their conversational responses must be informed by all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Konstantina Christakopoulou , Shibl Mourad , Maja Matarić

Making high-stakes personal decisions involves cognitive, emotional, and intuitive processes, and individuals differ in how they allocate attention across these modes. Integration of these processes has shown to benefit decision making.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Morita Tarvirdians , Senthil Chandrasegaran , Hayley Hung , Catholijn M. Jonker , Catharine Oertel

A discourse strategy is a strategy for communicating with another agent. Designing effective dialogue systems requires designing agents that can choose among discourse strategies. We claim that the design of effective strategies must take…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Marilyn A. Walker

Generative agents have made significant progress in simulating human behavior, but existing frameworks often simplify emotional modeling and focus primarily on specific tasks, limiting the authenticity of the simulation. Our work proposes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Qing Dong , Pengyuan Liu , Dong Yu , Chen Kang