Cognitive Agents Interacting in Real and Virtual Worlds

Abstract

This chapter describes agents, based on the ACT-R cognitive architecture, which operate in real robotic and virtual synthetic domains. The virtual and robotic task domains discussed here share nearly identical challenges from the agent modeling perspective. Most importantly, these domains involve agents that interact with humans and each other in real-time in a three-dimensional space. This chapter describes a unified approach to developing ACT-R agents for these environments that takes advantage of the synergies presented by these environments.