Dramaturgical and dissonance theories in explicit social context modeling for complex agents

• Main Authors: KOCHANOWICZ, Jaroslaw, TAN, Ah-hwee, THALMANN, Daniel
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: affective computing; dissonance theory; dramaturgical theory; social simulation; Databases and Information Systems; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5257
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Expanding the spectrum of agent social capabilities is an important challenge in agent‐based simulation and other domains. While human‐like emotionality has been vastly explored in the last 20years, little research addresses explicit, psychologically believable social situation modeling. Recently, some important elements have been underlined: hybrid connectionist models outside formal ontologies; complex subjective representations linking culture, personality and norms, and so on, but proposed solutions do not provide a formalized structure of a social experience, expressive and well‐grounded in psychology. In this paper, we develop a new approach to social situation modeling based on the dramaturgical and dissonance theories. A new component (Dramaturgical Module) is described with implementation used to generate example behavior depicting new social modeling capabilities and a believable representation of the relevant psychological theories. We present a case scenario with a dramaturgical interpretation of dynamic social situations and related cognitive dissonances resulting in a simple and flexible classification. Easily usable in reasoning, planning or affect generation, dramaturgical interpretation is additionally presented here as basis of social affect generation.