Modeling Human Emotional Intelligence in Virtual Agents

A candidate framework for integration of theoretical, modeling and experimental approaches to understanding emotional intelligence is described. The framework includes three elements of a new kind that enable representation of emotional cognition: an emotional state, an appraisal, and a moral schema. These elements are integrated with the weak semantic cognitive map representing the values of emotional appraisals. The framework is tested on interpretation of results obtained in two new experimental paradigms that reveal general features of human emotional cognition, such as the emergence of subjectively perceived persistent roles of individual virtual actors. Implications concern heterogeneous human-robot teams.