Toward a socially acceptable model of emotional artificial intelligence

Abstract

The framework of emotional Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (eBICA) is used to define a cognitive model, producing believable socially emotional behavior in a social interaction paradigm in a virtual environment. The paradigm selected for this study is a virtual pet interacting with a human. Empirical results indicate that the combination of somatic factors, moral schemas and rational constraints in one model has the potential to make behavior of a virtual actor more believable, humanlike and socially acceptable. Implications concern future intelligent collaborative robots and virtual assistants.