Omni Rosen Hotel, Orlando, Florida, October 23-25, 1998
The question is not whether intelligent machines can have emotions, but whether machines can be intelligent without any emotions.Minsky, The Society of Mind
Research in neurobiology has provided evidence that emotions pervade human intelligence at many levels, being inseparable from cognition. Perception, attention, memory, learning, decision making, social interaction or communication are some of the aspects influenced by emotions. Their role in adaptation has likewise been evidenced by these studies. In the AI community, the need to overcome the traditional view that opposes rational cognition to absurd emotion has also been acknowledged. Emotion is not regarded anymore as an undesirable consequence of our embodiment that must be neglected, but as a necessary component of intelligent behavior that offers a rich potential for the design of artificial systems, and for enhancing our interactions with them.
This symposium investigates the role of emotions in grounding intelligent behavior, both at the individual and social levels. The main focus is on artificial agents in all sorts of embodiments, and on the possibilities for cross-fertilization between research in artificial emotions and studies of emotions in animals and humans.
Submissions are welcome which discuss theories, architectures, implementations, or problems regarding the following issues (this is a non-exclusive list), in artificial or in biological systems:
Contributions from fields others than AI, ALife, and robotics (e.g., arts, biology, humanities, social sciences), are also strongly encouraged.
Interaction among participants will be fostered. Discussion groups
will
be formed before and during the symposium. Presentations will be
short
and organized around panels. Poster sessions will allow for more
detailed and technical discussions.
Dolores Cañamero (Chair), IIIA-CSIC and LSI-UPC, Spain
Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Reading, UK
Hiroaki Kitano, Sony CSL, Japan
Ramón López de Mántaras, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Chisato Numaoka, Sony CSL, France
Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA
Andrew Ortony, Northwestern University, USA
Rosalind Picard, MIT, USA
Takanori Shibata, MEL, Japan
Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham, UK
Potential participants who would wish to present their work at the symposium should submit a short paper (up to 5000 words) or extended abstract (1500 to 2500 words). Contributions should describe work in progress, completed work, positions, or give significant insight into the current state or perspectives of research in artificial, animal, or human emotions. Other potential participants should send a statement of interest (1 page), briefly describing their work and their interest in the symposium. Some of the participants will be asked to contribute a paper to the final working notes. All participants will be invited to bring a poster presenting their work.
Please send your contributions by e-mail (ASCII, UNIX
compatible
postscript, or RTF) to the symposium chair:
Dolores Cañamero
(lola@iiia.csic.es)
IIIA-CSIC
Spanish Scientific Research Council
Artificial Intelligence Institute
Campus de la U.A.B.
E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Phone: +34-3-580-9570
Fax: +34-3-580-9661
E-mail: lola@iiia.csic.es
The symposium will consists of working groups, mixed panel and presentation sessions, invited talks, posters, and a final open discussion.
Prior to the beginning of the symposium, and for about a month (mid-September to mid-October) participants that have been scheduled for a same session will be asked to form a working group to discuss by e-mail and come up with a list of issues that should be addressed in the session. Participants should prepare their presentations trying to address these topics from the perspective of their own work, rather than a mere description of their contributed paper.
The first two days (Oct. 23 and 24) will mainly consist of sessions organized around some of the topics proposed above, or others that could emerge from the contributions of the participants. Each session will be assigned a chairperson, and one or two discussants. The format of the sessions (one and a half hour each) will be a mixture of panel, presentations, and open discussion. The participants in the session, together with the chairperson and the discussants, will form a panel. The session will start by a short introduction by the chairperson, who will sketch the main problems involved in the topic of the session and present the list of issues previously prepared by all the participants (5 min.). Then, each participant will give a short presentation (10 min.) addressing these issues from the perspective of her/his own work. After the presentations, a round of comments by all the members of the panel will be followed by an open discussion.
One or two invited talks are also planned for the first day.
In addition, two poster and system demonstrations sessions that allow for more detailed and technical discussions are also planned, one at the end of each of the first two days (approx. 3 hours in total). All the participants to the symposium will be invited to contribute a poster and give a demo if they would wish to do so. Ideally, posters should be on display during the whole symposium so that they can be available to participants to other symposia during coffee breaks.
The last day (Oct. 25) will be split in two sessions. In the first
one,
working groups will be formed to prepare for the final
discussion, assess the outcomes of the symposium, discuss
about the state of research in the field, and think of a sort
of research program for the coming years. The last session will start
by a short presentation of the conclusions of the different working
groups
(30 min.), to end with a general, open discussion (1 hour). On the
practical
side, one of the outcomes
of the symposium, to be discussed in this last session, should be the
setting up of a mailing list to exchange and distribute information
about events and research going on in the field.
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