EmpathyWorks^† - Artificial personality module for toys and games

EmpathyWorks is a small, fast personality module for toys and games. Artificial personalities have an emotional state, inherited behavioral characteristics and a 'world view'. EmpathyWorks is:

• Rule-driven - no programming required
• Declarative - the Personality Rule Language (PRL™) allows behavioral scientists to use English-like statements instead of procedural programming
• Flexible - define species and individuals, behavioral characteristics, environment and relationships
• Small - EmpathyWorks requires less than 100KB ROM and less than 1K bytes of RAM per individual personality for simple scenarios
• Device Independent - a AI application informs EmpathyWorks of events and EmpathyWorks simulates the response of the personalities
• Time sensitive - simulated personalities respond to the passage of time
• Scalable - the number of personalities that can be modeled within an single application are limited only by memory and computational power

EmpathyWorks supports:

• Multi-generational inheritance - personality traits can be inherited from parents
• Event types - Responses to life-changing events are defined separately from mundane events
• Societal modeling - relationships between individuals can be defined
• Shared events - one artificial personality's life events can affect the other personalities with which it has relationships with
• Predator/prey relationships - behaviors corresponding to hunting and being hunted are supported
• Decision making - an application can query an artificial personality for its opinions as to which of several choices to make
• Life stages - artificial personalities can grow up to mature individuals, mature, become old and die
• Emotional display - an artificial personality's internal state can be queried for display
  

EmpathyWorks is currently under development. A pre-release of an online demo is available here. Please contact us for further information.

EmpathyWorks and PRL are trademarks of Micronautics Research Inc. All rights reserved.

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