Life-Like Characters: Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications (Cognitive Technologies)

Rating:
Summary: Good review of recent litterature
Review: This book covers a wide range of papers published over recent years. A lot of the papers focus on XML-based agent behaviour description languages, which will expose you to some practical designs you can choose from if you want to implement such a beast... but it can become repetitive if you read the book in one sitting.

Other papers covers how to model social or psychological logic or behaviours, for example, how to model a character's expectations to drive learning.

Overall, reading this book will bring you to speed quickly... but if you're on a budget, try instead to locate the papers on the internet, there isn't that much exclusive material in the book.