An Emotional Agent for Moral Impairment Rehabilitation in TBI Patients

The ability to identify the emotions of others is a key component of what is known as social cognition. Narratives exploit this mechanism to create an emotional bond with the characters and to maintain the engagement of the audience throughout the story. In this paper, we describe a case study in emotion understanding in stories that leverages a computational agent to explore emotion impairment in a group of traumatic brain injured people. We...