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related to police work and display the unique features this work has, such as the
status of the police officer. It remains to be investigated whether our approach would
allow for feasible analysis of behaviour a completely different domain. However,
given a sufficiently rich corpus of such interactions, we expect that our methodology
can be used to analyse corpora from other domains as well.
In future work, we will construct a mental model for virtual agents in a police
interview setting. As indicated above, we will focus on the dynamics of such
interviews, establishing a computational model that enables a virtual agent to
perform causal reasoning. This system will go beyond being an “autonomous
sensitive artificial listener” as in Schroder et al. ( 2012 ). The system will be able
to use the “mood” of its mental model to select the most appropriate action it has
available. The current work will inform the creation of this model, which will in
turn be used for virtual agents in a tutoring application. Thus, having related data to
theories, our next step will be to relate theories to practice.
Acknowledgements This publication was supported by the Dutch national program COMMIT.
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