Related Work

• The Attention and Affect Project at the University of Birmingham. This project is headed up by Aaron Sloman and is interested in evaluating the design space of agent architectures. In particular, they are examining the design of agent architectures for resource-bounded agents with multiple sources of motivation and the role emotions plays in such agents.

• The Virtual Theater Project at Stanford. This project is headed up by Barbara Hayes-Roth and Edward Feigenbaum. They are looking at tools to allow children to create impovisational plays on the computer.

• The Autonomous Agent Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. This group is headed up by Pattie Maes. They build all sorts of agents for a variety of purposes.