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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