To avoid the occurrence of spirals of negative emotion in their teams, team leaders may benefit from intelligent agent systems that analyze the emotional dynamics of the team members. As a first step in developing such agents, this paper uses an agent-based approach to formalize and simulate emotion contagion spirals within groups. The computational multi-agent model is integrated within an intelligent ambient agent to monitor and predict group emotion levels over time and propose group support actions based on that.
['Tibor Bosse', 'Rob Duell', 'Zulfiqar Ali Memon', 'Jan Treur', 'C. Natalie van der Wal']
A Multi-agent Model for Emotion Contagion Spirals Integrated within a Supporting Ambient Agent Model