Masahide Yuasa

A tool for animated agents in network-based negotiation

In this paper, we describe a tool for developing animated agents with facial expressions in negotiation through a computer network. The tool learns a users tendency to select facial expressions of the animated agent, and generates facial expressions instead of human. In order to estimate facial expressions, the tool has an emotional model constructed by Bayesian network. We can easily develop animated agents if we use this tool as a component. And we describe the estimation of an opponents emotional state, based on observed data, by using the Bayesian network.

Giving advice in negotiation using physiological information

The authors propose a method for giving advice to participants of negotiation using physiological information. We apply Newcombs A-B-X model (Isamu Saito, 1987) as a human relation model to negotiation. Based on the model, we adopt the users preference of a proposal, an impression of an opponents attitude and a degree of the users emotional disturbance in the advice generating tool. We measure the users perspiration and pulse rate to extract the users emotional disturbance. The tool learns the relation between the users preferences and the advice. The experimental results show that the tool can improve the quality of advice.

IWME 2014: first international workshop on mood engineering

The first international workshop on mood engineering (IWME) is held in Tsukuba, Japan on October 28, 2014 and co-located with the second international conference on human-agent interaction (HAI). The main objective of the workshop is to create artificial moods by robot and agents and to clarify the mechanism of a mood created by a group including humans, robo ts, and agents. We have constructed an exciting program of demonstrations, posters, and video materials as interactive sessions that will provide participants creative a mood for collaborative research.

An online moot court system mediated by an agent

A moot court is an effective method to educate the skills of argumentation. However, to conduct the moot court, participants have to come together at one place and have to stay there for a long time. Therefore, it is difficult to hold the moot court so often.