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Personality And Emotion For Virtual Characters In Strong-Story Narrative Planning, Alireza Shirvani
Personality And Emotion For Virtual Characters In Strong-Story Narrative Planning, Alireza Shirvani
Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science
Interactive virtual worlds provide an immersive and effective environment for training, education, and entertainment purposes. Virtual characters are an essential part of every interactive narrative. The interaction of rich virtual characters can produce interesting narratives and enhance user experience in virtual environments. I propose models of personality and emotion that are highly domain independent and integrate those models into multi-agent strong-story narrative planning systems. I demonstrate the value of the strong-story properties of the model by generating story conflicts intelligently. My models of emotion and personality enable the narrative generation system to create more opportunities for players to resolve conflicts …
Changes In Cardiovascular, Respiratory, And Neural Activity By Music: Effects Of Breathing Pathway On Feeling Emotions, Mohammad Javad Mollakazemi
Changes In Cardiovascular, Respiratory, And Neural Activity By Music: Effects Of Breathing Pathway On Feeling Emotions, Mohammad Javad Mollakazemi
Theses and Dissertations--Biomedical Engineering
Listening to music can induce emotional and physiological changes. Increasing recognition of the palliative effects of music has led to its use as an adjuvant therapeutic tool in the treatment of various diseases. It is also well known that autonomic nervous activities and some cardiorespiratory rhythms change in correspondence with music. However, less is known about how these effects triggered by music come about. Listening to music affects synchronization between electroencephalograms (EEGs) and cardiac rhythmic activity. This interaction between cardiac and electrical responses led us to investigate whether EEG segments synchronized to different portions of the cardiac cycle can better …