This application presents an affective virtual agent that can play tic-tac-toe against the user. The object of tic-tac-toe is to get three in a row on a three by three game board. You play on a three by three game board. Players alternate placing X’s and O’s on the game board until one of the players has three in a row, or all nine squares on the board are filled, which means the game ends in a tie. For creating the virtual agent, we used Haptek’s peopleputty software.

To test the application, the behavior of the agent has been tested under various parameter settings. For example in

         experiment Agent 1   »   agent tries to win
         experiment Agent 2   »   agent deliberately tries to lose
         experiment Agent 3   »   agent decides whether it wants to win based on its money
         experiment Agent 4   »   agent is too involved with the user to win
         experiment Agent 5   »   agent is balanced, and wins sometimes, and loses sometimes