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Human Behavior Models For Agents In Simulators And Games: Part I: Enabling Science With Pmfserv, Barry G. Silverman, Michael Johns, Jason Cornwell, Kevin O'Brien

Barry G Silverman

This article focuses on challenges to improving the realism of socially intelligent agents and attempts to reflect the state of the art in human behavior modeling with particular attention to the impact of personality/cultural values and affect as well as biology/stress upon individual coping and group decision-making. The first section offers an assessment of the state of the practice and of the need to integrate valid human performance moderator functions (PMFs) from traditionally separated sub-fields of the behavioral literature. The second section pursues this goal by postulating a unifying architecture and principles for integrating existing PMF theories and models. It …