Paper ID: 2407.18316

Affectively Framework: Towards Human-like Affect-Based Agents

Matthew Barthet, Roberto Gallotta, Ahmed Khalifa, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis

Game environments offer a unique opportunity for training virtual agents due to their interactive nature, which provides diverse play traces and affect labels. Despite their potential, no reinforcement learning framework incorporates human affect models as part of their observation space or reward mechanism. To address this, we present the \emph{Affectively Framework}, a set of Open-AI Gym environments that integrate affect as part of the observation space. This paper introduces the framework and its three game environments and provides baseline experiments to validate its effectiveness and potential.

Submitted: Jul 25, 2024