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Apr 2003
ISBN 0262201429
400 pp.
35 illus.
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Emotions in Humans and Artifacts
Robert Trappl , Paolo Petta and Sabine Payr
Emotions have been much studied and discussed in recent years. Most books, however, treat only one aspect of emotions, such as emotions and the brain, emotions and well-being, or emotions and computer agents. This interdisciplinary book presents recent work on emotions in neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, computer science, artificial intelligence, and software and game development. The book discusses the components of human emotion and how they might be incorporated into machines, whether artificial agents should convey emotional responses to human users and how such responses could be made believable, and whether agents should accept and interpret the emotions of users without displaying emotions of their own. It also covers the evolution and brain architecture of emotions, offers vocabularies and classifications for defining emotions, and examines emotions in relation to machines, games, virtual worlds, and music.
Table of Contents
 Preface
1 Emotions: From Brain Research to Computer Game Development
2 A Theory of Emotion, Its Functions, and Its Adaptive Value
by Edmund T. Rolls
3 How Many Separately Evolved Emotional Beasties Live within Us?
by Aaron Sloman
4 Designing Emotions for Activity Selection in Autonomous Agents
by Lola D. Cañamero
5 Emotions: Meaningful Mappings Between the Individual and Its World
by Kirstie L. Beltman
6 On Making Believable Emotional Agents Believable
by Andres Ortony
7 What Does It Mean for a Computer to "Have" Emotions?
by Rosalind W. Picard
8 The Role of Elegance in Emotion and Personality: Reasoning for Believable Agents
by Clark Bliott
9 The Role of Emotions in a Tractable Architecture for Situated Cognizers
by Paolo Petta
10 The Wolfgang System: A Role of "Emotions" to Bias Learning and Problem solving when Learning to Compose Music
by Douglas Riecken
11 A Bayesian Heart: Computer Recognition and Simulation of Emotion
by Eugene Ball
12 Creating Emotional Relationships with Virtual Characters
by Andrew Stern
 Concluding Remarks
by Robert Trappi
 Recommended Reading
 Contributors
 Name Index
 Subject Index
 
 


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