The 4th seminar on Horizons for Information Societies was about virtual humans. Mr Becker () presented his research on emotion simulation at the and .
See also: previous seminar (#3), next seminar (#5).
Slides of the presentation:
Date: 4 April 2007 (15:00-16:00)
Location: , Tokyo, Japan
Language: English
Registration fees: None
Organization: Dr ()
Abstract: In recent years, the integration of emotion-driven behaviors became prominent in the field of virtual humans. The virtual human under development at the , called Max, is a testbed for studying human-like behavior in natural face-to-face interactions. To endow its cognitive architecture with simulated emotions, we follow Damasio's distinction of "primary" and "secondary" emotions. Primary ones are elicited as an immediate reaction to a stimulus that might originate from internal bodily processes; secondary ones (e.g. relief, hope) arise from cognitively higher processes of conscious appraisal. I will first introduce our agent's cognitive architecture and its employment in two different interaction scenarios. Then I will present the psychological background for emotion simulation, distinguishing structural and dimensional emotion theories. Finally I will outline the implementation of an "as-if" body-loop, based on a distinction between physis and cognition in our architecture to simulate and express primary and secondary emotions.
Speaker: Mr Becker received his M.S. degree from the , and is currently a Ph.D. student and research assistant in its Artificial Intelligence Group. Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the (JSPS), he stayed at the during 3 month in 2005. His current research focuses on the simulation of complex emotions for conversational artifacts.
Website: <http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~cbecker/index_engl.html>
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