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Have you ever found yourself in front of a computer and asking it aloud: “Why?” We have constructed a cognitively motivated episodic memory system that enables a virtual guide to respond to this question. The guide, a virtual agent based on a belief–desire–intention (BDI) architecture, is employed in a Virtual Reality (VR) scenario where he accompanies a human visitor on a tour through a city. In this paper we explain how the agents memorizes events and episodes according to an event-indexing model and how the interaction is enhanced by using these memories. We argue that due to the cognitively motivated nature of the event-indexing model every interaction situation can be described, memorized, recalled and explained by the agent.
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Rabe, F., Wachsmuth, I. (2013). Enhancing Human Computer Interaction with Episodic Memory in a Virtual Guide. In: Kurosu, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Modalities and Techniques. HCI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39330-3_13
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