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

Abstract

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 20 years, 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.

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“…6 Highly repetitive interventions are essential, as motivation tends to diminish over time. 7 presented a model for simulating complex social agent behaviors based on dramaturgical theory and cognitive dissonance theory. The agent-based simulations demonstrate applications as digital therapies and for user experience design.…”