Knowing When to Support: A Human-Aware Agent Model in a Psychological Domain

Azizi Ab AZIZ

Human-Centred Computing Research Lab, School of Computing, CAS Universiti Utara Malaysia 06010 UUM Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

Page 45 – 54   |   Vol. 1, No. 1 (2016)   |    Available online on 1 September 2016

Abstract

The human mind is undoubtedly one of the most complicated entities in this world. The collection of processes that are performed by the human mind is indicated by cognition. Much progress has been made to allow scientists to understand this fundamental concept of mind. Formal analysis is one of the methods to unravel the mechanisms of mind. This is in line with the aim of cognitive modellers in their quest to explain the structures and the processes of the mind by building them. In this article, the foundations to develop a cognitive computational model will be discussed and a case study (model in anxiety state and traits) is presented as a basis to visualize those concepts (foundations). A number of well-known relations between events and the course of anxiety are summarized from the literature and it is shown that the model exhibits those patterns. In addition, the formal model has been mathematically analysed to find out which stable situations exist. Finally, it is pointed out how this model can be used in virtual simulation environment, supported by a software agent.

Keywords

Computational psychology, cognitive modeling, human functioning model, human-agent model

Acknowledgement

This research is fully supported by RACE grant (code S/O: 12633) and PBIT (code S/O: 12615).
The authors fully acknowledged Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) and Universiti Utara Malaysia for the approved funds which makes this important research viable and effective.

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