Symposium Schedule

Emotional and Intelligent II:
The Tangled Knot of Social Cognition

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American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

2001 Fall Symposium Series

Sea Crest Convention Center, North Falmouth, MA, November 2-4, 2001

This page last modified: October 26, 2001

Friday, November 2:

9:00 - Welcome
9:05 - Keynote talk : Some Thoughts on the Behavioral Concomitants of Emotions, Andrew Ortony
9:55 - Session 1: Emotion, social behavior, and learning I (Chair: Lola Cañamero)
  • Social Behavior, Emotion and Learning in a Pack of Virtual Wolves (9:55 - 10:15), Bill Tomlinson and Bruce Blumberg
  • Physically and Emotionally Grounded Symbol Acquisition for Autonomous Robots (10:10 - 10:30), Masahiro Fujita, Rika Hasegawa, Gabriel Costa, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Jun Yokono and Hideki Shimomura -- CANCELLED
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - Session 2: Emotion, social behavior and learning II (Chair: Craig Smith)
  • Learning Courses of Action Using the "Movie-in-the-Brain" Paradigm (11:00 - 11:20), Rodrigo Ventura, Luis Custodio and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira
  • A Computational Model of Affect Theory: Simulations of Reducer/Augmenter and Learned Helplessness Phenomena (11:20 - 11:40), Michael S. Davis
  • PECS - Agent-Based Modeling of Human Behavior (11:40 - 12:00), Christoph Urban and Bern Schmidt
12:00 - Poster spotlights
  • Project Joshua Blue: Design Considerations for Evolving an Emotional Mind in a Simulated Environment (12:00 - 12:10), Nancy Alvarado, Sam S. Adams, Steve Burbeck and Craig Latta
  • Learning the Axiomatic Reasoning about Mental States Assists the Emotional Development of Autistic Patients(12:10 - 12:20), Boris Galitsky
  • Modeling the Logic of Emotion with Knowledge Engineering (12:20 - 12:30), William Jarrold
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - Keynote talk: Machine Recognition of Human Emotion, Rosalind Picard
2:50 - Session 3: Perceiving others' emotions, perceiving others through emotions I (Chair: Cristina Conati)
  • The Effects of Emotion of Voice in Synthesized and Recorded Speech (2:50 - 3:10), Clifford Nass, Ulla Foehr, Scott Brave and Michael Somoza
  • Towards a Learning Companion that Recognizes Affect (3:10 - 3:30), Ashish Kapoor, Selene Mota and Rosalind Picard
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - Session 4: Perceiving others' emotions, perceiving others through emotions II (Chair: Cristina Conati)
  • The Role of Expressiveness and Attention in Human-Robot Interaction (4:00 - 4:20), Allison Bruce, Illah Nourbakhsh and Reid Simmons
  • Self, Empathy, Manipulativity: Mathematical Connections between Higher Order Perceptions, Emotions, and Social Cognition (4:20 - 4:40), Zippora Arzi-Gonczarowski
4:40 - Session 5: Emotions in Decision Making (Chair: Christine Lisetti)
  • The Quantum of Social Action and the Function of Emotion in Decision-Making (4:40 - 5:00), William Lawless
  • Toward the Computational Representation of Individual Cognitive, Emotional, and Cultural State: A Peacekeeping Scenario Simulation (5:00 - 5:20), Elaine M. Raybourn
  • Poster spotlight: A Hybrid Symbolic-Connectionist Approach to Modeling Emotions (5:20 - 5:30), Randolph M. Jones, Eric Chown and Amy E. Henninger
  • Poster spotlight: Emotions and Personality in Agent Design and Modeling (5:30 - 5:40), Christine Lisetti and Piotr Gmytrasiewicz
5:40 - End of Sessions
6:00 - 7:00 Evening Opening Reception


Saturday, November 3:



9:00 - Session 6: Creating and regulating affect with/through artifacts (Chair: Andrew Ortony)
  • Modeling Students' Emotions to Improve Learning with Educational Games (9:00 - 9:20), Cristina Conati
  • Modeling Affect Regulation and Induction (9:20 - 9:40), Eva Hudlicka
  • The Provoking Thing: A VR Relationship (9:40 - 10:00), Josephine Anstey and Dave Pape
  • Using Surprise to Create Products that get the Attention of other Agents (10:00 - 10:20), Luis Macedo and Amilcar Cardoso -- CANCELLED
  • Believable Agents @ Zoesis (Demo presentation) (10:00 - 10:20), Bryan Loyall
  • Poster spotlight: Emotion and Agent Interaction (10:20 - 10:30), Ruth Aylett and Carlos Delgado
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - Session 7: Emotions in social behavior and adaptation I (Chair: Rosalind Picard)
  • Emotions, Signaling and Strategic Coordination (11:00 - 11:20), Don Ross and Paul Dumouchel
  • Appraisal and Filter Programs for Affective Communication (11:20 - 11:40), Helmut Prendinger and Mitsuru Ishizuka
11:40 - Keynote talk: Robots Can Be Made with Human-like Emotions but Shouldn't Be, John McCarthy
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - Keynote talk: The Emotion Machine: A Model of Everyday Mental Activity, Marvin Minsky
2:50 - Panel: The impact of affective artifacts on our social world. Participants: Paul Dumouchel, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Rosalind Picard, Craig A. Smith. Moderator: Lola Cañamero
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - Panel: The impact of affective artifacts on our social world (continued)
5:30 - End of Sessions
6:00 - 7:30 Evening Plenary Session


Sunday, November 4:

9:00 - Keynote talk: On the Elicitation, Differentiation, and Organization of Emotion: Structural and Procedural Considerations, Craig A. Smith (joint work with Leslie D. Kirby)
9:50 - Session 8: Emotions in social behavior and adaptation II (Chair: Bill Tomlinson)
  • The Evolution of Simple Affective States in Multi-Agent Environments (9:50 - 10:10), Matthias Scheutz
  • Using Motives and Artificial Emotions for Prolonged Activity of a Group of Autonomous Robots (10:10 - 10:30), Francois Michaud, Etienne Robichaud and Jonathan Audet
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - Session 9: Emotions in social behavior and adaptation III (Chair: Bill Tomlinson)
  • An Emotion-Based Agent Architecture Application with Real Robots (11:00 - 11:20), Rui Sadio, Goncalo Tavares, Rodrigo Ventura and Luis Custodio
  • Building Emotional Artifacts in Social Worlds: Challenges and Perspectives (11:20 - 11:40), Lola Cañamero
11:40 - General discussion
12:30 - End of Symposium Series

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