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FAtiMA (Fearnot AffecTIve Mind Architecture)

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A cognitive-appraisal agent architecture for authoring synthetic agents with goals, emotions, beliefs, action tendencies, planning, and Theory-of-Mind models, used here in the MIXER intercultural-conflict learning environment.

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  • FAtiMA cognitive appraisal agent architecture with cultural Theory of Mind: FAtiMA (Fearnot AffecTIve Mind Architecture) is a cognitive appraisal architecture in which events are assessed in relation to agent goals and generate an affective outcome, used in reactive action-tendency rules and a deliberative planning system generating coping behaviours based on hope and fear. For MIXER it was extended with a 1-level Theory of Mind consisting of a collection of Models of Others forming a recursive hierarchical tree, encoding equivalents to Baron-Cohen's Eye-Direction Detection and Shared-Attention Mechanism capabilities. Making the utility of goals depend on cultural values establishes a link between culture and behaviour, so agents' appraisal and action generation are culturally dependent. (Hall et al. (2014))

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  • Hall, L., Tazzyman, S., Hume, C., Endrass, B., Lim, M.-Y., Hofstede, G., Paiva, A., Andre, E., Kappas, A., & Aylett, R. (2014). Learning to Overcome Cultural Conflict through Engaging with Intelligent Agents in Synthetic Cultures. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-014-0031-y
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title FAtiMA (Fearnot AffecTIve Mind Architecture)
description A cognitive-appraisal agent architecture for authoring synthetic agents with goals, emotions, beliefs, action tendencies, planning, and Theory-of-Mind models, used here in the MIXER intercultural-conflict learning environment.
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