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Subject: 20030618.VORTRAG: Jonathan Gratch and Stacey Marsella, California, USA Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:05:35 +0200 From: OeFAI Information Server oefaiinf@ai.univie.ac.at To: undisclosed-recipients:;

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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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

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