Dr. Lola Canamero, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Lecture
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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI)
                      Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
 Tel.: +43-1-53361120,  Fax: +43-1-5336112-77,  Email: sec@oefai.at
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 Dr. Lola Canamero
 Senior Lecturer
 University of Hertfordshire, UK

        MOTIVATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL ROOTS OF COGNITION AND ACTION:
                       AN EMBODIED AI PERSPECTIVE

 Motivation and emotion are highly intertwined (e.g., emotions are
 often very powerful motivational factors; motivation can be seen
 as a consequence of emotion and viceversa, etc.) and it is not
 always easy to establish clear boundaries between them. Both types
 of phenomena are grouped under the broader category of "affect",
 traditionally distinguished from "cold" cognition. They lie at
 the heart of autonomy, adaptation, and social interaction in both
 biological and artificial agents. They also have a powerful and
 wide-ranging influence on many aspects of cognition and action.
 However, their roles are often considered to be complementary - as
 a first approximation, motivation would be concerned with the internal
 and external factors involved in the establishment of "goals" and the
 initiation and execution of goal-oriented action, whereas emotion is
 rather concerned, among other critical factors, with evaluative
 aspects of the relation between an agent and its environment.

 This talk will consider and illustrate some of the roles and mutual
 interactions of motivation and emotion in influencing different
 aspects of "low-level" cognition and action in artificial (in
 particular robotic) agents that interact with their physical and
 social environment from an Embodied AI perspective, i.e. in tightly
 coupled Perception-Action loops.

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  Zeit:   Donnerstag, 18. November 2004, 18:00 Uhr pktl.

  Ort:    Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
          fuer Artificial Intelligence
          FREYUNG 6/6, 3. Stock, 1010 Wien.


  OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
  FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE


  o.Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl