Creating synthetic emotions through technological and robotic advancements

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Vallverdú, Jordi.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
• Subjects: Emotions.; Artificial intelligence.; Robots.; Artificial Intelligence.; Robotics.; Affective computing; Cognitive science; Emotional computing; Engineering approaches to emotions; Evolutionary approaches to the mind; Humanoid robotics; Language and emotions; Modeling artificial emotions; Sociable robotics; Synthetic emotions
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"This book compiles progressive research in the emerging and groundbreaking fields of artificial emotions, affective computing, and sociable robotics that allow humans to begin the once seemingly impossible task of interacting with robots, systems, devices, and agent"--Provided by publishe...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Modeling the experience of emotion / Joost Broekens
• 2. Review of Kansei research in Japan / Seiji Inokuchi
• 3. Simplifying the design of human-like behaviour: emotions as durative dynamic state for action selection / Joanna J. Bryson, Emmanuel Tanguy
• 4. Emotion as a significant change in neural activity / Karla Parussel
• 5. Automatic, dimensional and continuous emotion recognition / Hatice Gunes, Maja Pantic
• 6. Emotion in the pursuit of understanding / Daniel S. Levine, Leonid I. Perlovsky
• 7. Chatterbox challenge as a test-bed for synthetic emotions / Jordi Vallverdú, Huma Shah, David Casacuberta
• 8. Effects of polite behaviors expressed by robots: a psychological experiment in Japan / Tatsuya Nomura, Kazuma Saeki
• 9. Are robots autistic? / Neha Khetrapal.