Dataset for "Norm Awareness for Virtual Characters Behaviour: A Socio-Cognitive Approach"

This dataset comprises video clips and source code accompanying the thesis "Norm Awareness for Virtual Characters Behaviour: A Socio-Cognitive Approach". The thesis proposes a new computational model, Distributed Norm-Aware Agent Architecture (DNA3), for increasing the verisimilitude of the behaviour of virtual characters (in a simulated world such as SecondLife) by incorporating reasoning about social norms. The model integrates a normative framework performing the social reasoning, a cognitive agent carrying out run-time norm-aware deliberation, and a virtual character in charge of perception and realisation of actions.

This dataset includes the Java and C# source code for the Bath-Sensor-Framework (BSF) middleware, and Java code implementing the N-Jason virtual agent, as described in chapter 3 of the thesis. Video clips showing this code in operation, referenced in chapters 6 and 7 of the thesis, are also included.

本数据集配套论文《虚拟角色行为的规范意识：一种社会认知方法》（Norm Awareness for Virtual Characters Behaviour: A Socio-Cognitive Approach），包含配套的视频片段与源代码。该论文提出了一种全新的计算模型——分布式规范感知智能体架构（Distributed Norm-Aware Agent Architecture，DNA3），通过融入社会规范推理机制，提升虚拟角色（在《第二人生》（SecondLife）这类模拟世界中）的行为逼真度。该模型整合了三大核心组件：负责社会推理的规范框架、执行运行时规范感知决策的认知智能体，以及负责感知与动作实现的虚拟角色。本数据集包含论文第3章中提及的巴斯传感器框架（Bath-Sensor-Framework，BSF）中间件的Java与C#源代码，以及实现N-Jason虚拟智能体的Java代码。此外还收录了论文第6、7章中引用的、展示该代码实际运行效果的视频片段。