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Philosophy Meets Entertainment: Designing an Interactive Virtual Philosopher

Philosophy Meets Entertainment: Designing an Interactive Virtual Philosopher

  • Xuan Wang19,20,
  • Eng Tat Khoo21,
  • Sanath Siriwardana19,
  • Horathalge Iroshan19 &
  • …
  • Ryohei Nakatsu19,20 
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Abstract

To many people, philosophy seems to be a difficult and daunting subject. Our research seeks to make the esoteric philosophical ideas and concepts more accessible to people in the modern world, and make philosophy learning an entertaining activity by allowing people to directly interact with virtual philosophers from the past. With Artificial Intelligence technology, we have created a virtual philosopher that can automatically respond to user’s input in natural language text. It is hoped that the added interactivity can help to increase the appeal of philosophical subject to the users, and the users can have a better idea of the philosophy after an entertaining experience talking with the virtual philosopher. In this paper, we share our considerations for designing the system, the system architecture, and our preliminary user study on the interaction with the virtual philosopher.

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  • Virtual philosophers
  • interactive philosophy
  • artificial intelligence
  • conversational agent

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  1. Keio-NUS CUTE Center, Interactive and Digital Media Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Xuan Wang, Sanath Siriwardana, Horathalge Iroshan & Ryohei Nakatsu

  2. NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Singapore

    Xuan Wang & Ryohei Nakatsu

  3. Eon Reality, Singapore

    Eng Tat Khoo

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  3. Abteilung für Informatik und angewandte Kognitionswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

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Wang, X., Khoo, E.T., Siriwardana, S., Iroshan, H., Nakatsu, R. (2012). Philosophy Meets Entertainment: Designing an Interactive Virtual Philosopher. In: Herrlich, M., Malaka, R., Masuch, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2012. ICEC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33542-6_9

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