Published: 2007-12-20
ISBN: 978-91-7393-990-4
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Interactive virtual reality applications have lately been used as a complementary tool in the treatment of people with different kinds of psychological disorders. A number of these projects would benefit from a more realistic behavior of virtual characters. In this paper we describe our ongoing work on an advanced emotional agent architecture for virtual characters and propose new potential applications within the area of health care.
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