Welcome to the Emotion Forum

http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqlc/emotion.html

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Your contributions and feedback are highly appreciated

Last updated: July 10, 2003

The question is not whether intelligent machines can have emotions, but whether machines can be intelligent without any emotions.

Minsky, The Society of Mind

Emotion mailing list

The purpose of the emotion mailing list is to provide a multidisciplinary forum to exchange ideas and relevant information among researchers on artificial and human/animal emotion. The main (but not the only) focus is on the possibilities for cross-fertilization between AI models and simulations of affective phenomena and studies of emotions in humans and other animals.

If you want to join the list, visit its web page. To send a posting or in case of problems, send a message to L . C - n - m e r o - t h e r t s . - c . u k (remove the spaces and put 'a' instead of '-').

Organizations

• ISRE: International Society for Research on Emotions. ISRE accepts applications for membership every year. Find out how to apply

Events:

Upcoming

• Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations, AAAI 2004 Spring Symposium Series. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, March 22-24, 2004.

Past

• Grounding Emotions in Adaptive Systems, workshop held at the SAB'98 conference.
• Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition, 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium Series.
• British HCI Group meeting on April 10, 1999.
• I3 Spring Days Workshop on Behavior Planning for Life-Like Characters and Avatars.
• Workshop on Emotion-Based Architectures at the 3rd Intl. Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents99).
• Special sessions on Beliefs and Emotions in Adaptive Interface Design and Practical Affective Computing at the 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCI'99 . Munich, Germany, August 22-27, 1999.
• International Workshop on Affect in Interactions: Toward a New Generation of Interfaces, held in conjunction with AC'99 , the Annual Conference of the EC I3 Programme. Siena, Italy, October 20-22, 1999.
• Autonomy Control: Lessons from the Emotional (ACE2000), a symposium of the 15th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2000) Vienna, Austria, April 25-28, 2000.
• 4th International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Agents2000. Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2000.
• ISRE-2000, the XI Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions. Québec City, Canada, August 16-20, 2000.
• 6th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior SAB2000. Paris, France, September 11-15, 2000.
• Socially Intelligent Agents: The Human in the Loop, AAAI 2000 Fall Symposium Series. North Falmouth, MA, November 3-5, 2000.
• Symposium on Emotion, cognition, and affective computing at the AISB'01 Convention. University of York, UK, March 21-24, 2001.
• 2nd Workshop on Attitude, Personality and Emotions in User-Adapted Interaction, held in conjunction with User Modeling 2001, Sonthofen, Germany, July 13-17, 2001.
• 4th International Conference on Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind, CT2001, University of Warwick, UK, August 6-9, 2001.
• Science, Knowledge and Humanity: debating the future of progress, October 26-28, 2001, New York City
• Emotional and Intelligent II: The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition, AAAI 2001 Fall Symposium Series. Sea Crest Conference Center, North Falmouth, MA, November 2-4, 2001.
• ACE 2002, Agent Construction and Emotions, A Symposium at the 16th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research EMCSR 2002, Vienna, Austria, April 2-5, 2002 (likely date of the symposium: April 2).
• Emotion, Evolution and Rationality, interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Philosophy Department at King's College London, Saturday 27 April - Sunday 28 April 2002.
• Animating Expressive Characters for Social Interactions, symposium of the AISB'02 Convention, Imperial College, London, UK, April 4-5, 2002.

Research Groups and Projets

• Rosalind Picard's Affective Computing group at the MIT Media Lab
• Draft of The Emotion Machine, by Marvin Minsky
• Joseph LeDoux Lab at NYU
• Aaron Sloman's Cognition and Affect group at the University of Birmingham
• The Geneva emotion research group, leaded by Klaus Scherer
• The OZ Project at CMU, leaded by Joe Bates
• Clark Elliott's Affective Reasoner Project at De Paul University
• Emotional robots at the MIT AI Lab: Kismet, built by Cynthia Breazeal, and Yuppy, by Juan Velásquez
• FEELIX, an expressive "humanoid" LEGO robot built by Lola Cañamero and Jakob Fredslund
• Takanori Shibata's Artificial Emotional Creature Project at MEL, Japan
• Daydreamer - a computer model of emotional control of the stream of thought, implemented by Erik Mueller

Related Sites

• The excellent emotion page at Salk Institute, maintained by Jean-Marc Fellous and Eva Hudlicka. Here you will find information regarding (almost :) everything you might want to know about the topic.
• The emotion and emotional intelligence page at Cornell University. Provides an on-line bibliography in the area, describing current research findings and notes of interest.
• The Affective Computing Portal maintained by Christoph Bartneck.
• The Socially Intelligent Agents page maintained by Kerstin Dautenhahn.

This page is maintained by Lola Cañamero.