Who’s that? – Social Situation Awareness for Behaviour Support Agents: A Feasibility Study

Ilir Kola; Catholijn M. Jonker; M. Birna van Riemsdijk

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_7

Who’s that? – Social Situation Awareness for Behaviour Support Agents: A Feasibility Study

Ilir Kola^*, Catholijn M. Jonker, M. Birna van Riemsdijk

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Abstract

Behavioursupportagentsneedtobeawareofthesocialenvi- ronment of the user in order to be able to provide comprehensive support. However, this is a feature that is currently lacking in existing systems. To tackle it, first of all we explore literature from social sciences in order to find which elements of the social environment need to be represented. We structure this knowledge as a two-level ontology that models social situations. We formalize the elements that are needed to model social sit- uations, which consist of different types of meetings between two people. We conduct an experiment to evaluate the lower level of the ontology using feedback from the subjects, and to test whether we can use the data to reason about the priority of different situations. Subjects found our proposed features of social relationships to be understandable and representative. Furthermore, we show these features can be combined in a decision tree to predict the priority of social situations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
Subtitle of host publication	7th International Workshop, EMAS 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13–14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Louise A. Dennis, Rafael H. Bordini, Yves Lespérance
Publisher	Springer
Pages	127-151
Number of pages	25
Volume	12058
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-51417-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-51416-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_7
Publication status	Published - 11 Jul 2020
Event	7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2019) - Montreal, Canada Duration: 13 May 2019 → 14 May 2019 Conference number: 7 http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/emas2019/index.html

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Name	Lecture notes in computer science
Volume	12058

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Workshop	7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2019)
Abbreviated title	EMAS 2019
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	13/05/19 → 14/05/19
Internet address	http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~lad/emas2019/index.html

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Kola, I., Jonker, C. M., & van Riemsdijk, M. B. (2020). Who’s that? – Social Situation Awareness for Behaviour Support Agents: A Feasibility Study. In L. A. Dennis, R. H. Bordini, & Y. Lespérance (Eds.), Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, EMAS 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13–14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 12058, pp. 127-151). (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 12058). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_7

Kola, Ilir ; Jonker, Catholijn M. ; van Riemsdijk, M. Birna. / Who’s that? – Social Situation Awareness for Behaviour Support Agents : A Feasibility Study. Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, EMAS 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13–14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Louise A. Dennis ; Rafael H. Bordini ; Yves Lespérance. Vol. 12058 Springer, 2020. pp. 127-151 (Lecture notes in computer science).

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Kola, I, Jonker, CM & van Riemsdijk, MB 2020, Who’s that? – Social Situation Awareness for Behaviour Support Agents: A Feasibility Study. in LA Dennis, RH Bordini & Y Lespérance (eds), Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, EMAS 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13–14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 12058, Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 12058, Springer, pp. 127-151, 7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2019), Montreal, Canada, 13/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_7

Who’s that? – Social Situation Awareness for Behaviour Support Agents: A Feasibility Study. / Kola, Ilir; Jonker, Catholijn M.; van Riemsdijk, M. Birna.
Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, EMAS 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13–14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Louise A. Dennis; Rafael H. Bordini; Yves Lespérance. Vol. 12058 Springer, 2020. p. 127-151 (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 12058).

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Kola I, Jonker CM, van Riemsdijk MB. Who’s that? – Social Situation Awareness for Behaviour Support Agents: A Feasibility Study. In Dennis LA, Bordini RH, Lespérance Y, editors, Engineering Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, EMAS 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13–14, 2019, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 12058. Springer. 2020. p. 127-151. (Lecture notes in computer science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_7

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