About the Editor

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. About the Editor ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Introduction xv
6. 1. Narrative Intelligence 1
7. 2. Digital Augmentation of Keepsake Objects: A Place for Interaction of Memory, Story, and Self 27
8. 3. Children as Designers of Interactive Storytellers “Let me tell you a story about myself…” 61
9. 4. Autonomous Synthetic Computer Characters as Personal Representatives 85
10. 5. “Conscious” and Conceptual Learning in a Socially Situated Agent 113
11. 6. Emotionally Grounded Social Interaction 137
12. 7. Architectural Requirements for Human-Like Agents Both Natural and Artificial: What sorts of machines can love? 163
13. 8. Connecting Reflection and Action: A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Model 197
14. 9. The Role of Evaluation in Cognition and Social Interaction 225
15. 10. The Ontogeny of the Social Self. Towards a Formal Computational Theory 263
16. 11. Computational Embodiment: Agents as Constructed Complex Systems 301
17. 12. Are We Having Fun Yet? Using Social Agents in Social Domains 323
18. 13. The Emergence of Personality: How to Create Souls from Cells 349
19. 14. Machine-Mediated Communication: Agents of Representation 377
20. 15. Agents as Artworks and Agent Design as Artistic Practice 395
21. 16. Living with Socially Intelligent Agents: A Cognitive Technology view 415
22. Subject Index 427
23. Name Index 437