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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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Prof. Jonathan Gratch
University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies,
Prof. Stacey Marsella
University of Soutern California's Information Sciences Institute
THE ARCHITECTURAL ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Emotion is nature's unique solution to challenges faced in the
design of any intelligent system. Findings in psychology and
neuroscience have overturned long-standing views that emotion is
in conflict with rational thought and have worked out a number of
the mechanisms through which emotion helps an organism adapt to
its environment. In this talk, we will discuss how an architectural
examination of these findings can begin to abstract the function
emotion plays in human information processing and inform the design
of intelligent systems in general. In contrast to contemporary
computational models of emotion that have focused largely on external
behavior, we harken back to Simon and Johnson-Laird and Oatley, who
also addressed the internal architectural role emotion plays in
intelligent behavior. In particular, cognitive appraisal theory,
which dominates recent psychological thought on emotion, emphasizes
the adaptive function of emotion and the close relationship between
cognition, emotion, and motivation. We show how to recast these
psychological theories in computational terms. The resulting general
framework has informed the design of significant AI applications and
can potentially lead to a concretization of these psychological
theories. We discuss an application of this framework to the problem
of generating coherent emotional behavior for a social training
application, giving a flavor of how contemporary research in human
emotion can influence general issues in the design of
intelligent systems.
!ACHTUNG, UNSERE NEUE ADRESSE!:
Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence
Freyung 6, Stiege 6, 3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Zeit: Mittwoch, 18.6.2003, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
o.Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl