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Emotional Appraisal of Moral Dilemma in Characters

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2012)

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In the narrative realm, emotions in general, and moral emotions in particular, play an important role in conveying moral values to the audience. A paradigmatic case is given by the occurrence of moral dilemmas in stories, where the character must trade off options that cannot be reconciled, each related with a certain moral value. In this paper, we propose a model of the appraisal of moral emotions, and describe an agent architecture that reacts to the occurrence of a moral dilemma with the appropriate emotions.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica and CIRMA, Università di Torino, Italy

    Cristina Battaglino & Rossana Damiano

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  1. 3D Animation and Interactive Virtual Environments, Vicomtech, P. Mikeletegi 57, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

    David Oyarzun

  2. Departamento de Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

    Federico Peinado

  3. Digital Games Research Center, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    R. Michael Young

  4. Vicomtech-IK4 Research Centre, Paseo Mikeletegi, 57, 20009, San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain

    Ane Elizalde

  5. Computer Science School, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Profesor José García Santesmases, s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Gonzalo Méndez

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Battaglino, C., Damiano, R. (2012). Emotional Appraisal of Moral Dilemma in Characters. In: Oyarzun, D., Peinado, F., Young, R.M., Elizalde, A., Méndez, G. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34851-8_15

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