University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK, 14th - 15th April, 2005 - Lindop Building, Room A166
This page last modified: April 11, 2005
Symposium Description
Symposium Organisation
NEW: Final timetable and information for participants
Programme Committee
Important Dates
Motivation and emotion are highly intertwined (e.g., emotions are often very powerful motivational factors; motivation can be seen as a consequence of emotion and viceversa, etc.) and it is not always easy to establish clear boundaries between them. Both types of phenomena are grouped under the broader category of "affect", traditionally distinguished from "cold" cognition. They lie at the heart of autonomy, adaptation, and social interaction in both biological and artificial agents. They also have a powerful and wide-ranging influence on many aspects of cognition and action. However, their roles are often considered to be complementary - as a first approximation, motivation would be concerned with the internal and external factors involved in the establishment of "goals" and the initiation and execution of goal-oriented action, whereas emotion is rather concerned, among other critical factors, with evaluative aspects of the relation between an agent and its environment.
This symposium proposes to investigate the roles and mutual interactions of motivation and emotion in influencing different aspects of cognition and action in biological and artificial agents that interact with their physical and social environment. The nature of this topic necessitates a highly multi-disciplinary symposium, and we invite contributions from different relevant disciplines such as psychology, biology, neuroscience, ethology, sociology and philosophy, in addition to AI and robotics.
Lola
Cañamero
Adaptive Systems Research Group
School of Computer Science
University of Hertfordshire, UK
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Many thanks to Dylan Evans, initially symposium co-chair, who withdrew from his active role in the organization of the symposium due to unforeseen circumstances: his work is sincerely acknowledged.
The final programme is now available.
For information about accommodation, travel, or the AISB'05 Convention in general, please visit the AISB'05 site.
Orlando Avila-García - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Ruth Aylett - Univesity of Salford, UK
Cynthia Breazeal - MIT, USA
Joanna Bryson - University of Bath, UK
Lola Cañamero - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Dylan Evans - University of the West of England, UK
Philippe Gaussier - University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Steve Grand - Cyberlife Research Ltd., UK
Chris Melhuish - University of the West of England, UK
Jean-Arcady Meyer - LIP6, France
Jacqueline Nadel - CNRS & Hôpital de la
Salpétrière, France
Paolo Petta - ÖFAI & Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Tony Prescott - University of Sheffield, UK
David Sander - University of Geneva, CH