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A mechanism for acting and speaking for Empathic Agents

The FearNot! application demonstrator, currently being developed for the EU framework V project VICTEC, uses empathic agents as a basic mechanism for engaging children in anti-bullying education. The empathic agents are driven by an affective system in interactional dramas in which both physical actions and language actions are required. This paper focuses on the different sets of Speech Act inspired language action lists developed for the project and discusses their use for an interactive language and action system for the elaboration of expressive characters. The paper also presents early development and implementation work as well as system and speech evaluation planning.