Dr. E. Hudlicka, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Lecture
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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI)
                      Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien
 Tel.: +43-1-53361120,  Fax: +43-1-5336112-77,  Email: sec@oefai.at
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 Dr. Eva Hudlicka
 Psychometrix Associates Inc., Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

                    THIS TIME WITH FEELING: 
        METHODOLOGY AND TESTBED FOR MODELING STATE AND 
        TRAIT EFFECTS ON DECISION MAKING AND BEHAVIOR       

  Decision making and behavior are influenced by a variety of cognitive,
  personality, and affective factors. Together these factors are 
  referred to as individual differences. Modeling their effects within 
  cognitive architectures is critical, both for the development of 
  more realistic agents, and for the advancement of our understanding 
  of a variety of perceptual and cognitive processes.  

  In this talk I will describe a generic methodology for modeling the 
  effects of individual differences within symbolic cognitive 
  architectures, with particular focus on trait and state effects. 
  The core component of the methodology is a high degree of 
  architecture parameterization of both structure and processing. 
  This parameter space then provides a means of encoding the effects 
  of specific configurations of individual differences on a variety of 
  perceptual and cognitive processes. The methodology has been 
  implemented in the context of a specific cognitive architecture and 
  a computational cognitive modeling testbed environment, which 
  supports the definition of multiple, interacting agent types.   

  A demonstration of 'anxious', 'aggressive' and 'normal' agent 
  behavior will be presented in the context of a series of events 
  occurring within a demonstration scenario. 

Zeit:   Donnerstag, 21. November 2002, 18:30 Uhr pktl.

Ort:    Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut 
        fuer Artificial Intelligence    
        Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien.


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