Creating Synthetic Emotions through Technological and Robotic Advancements: 9781466615953: Computer Science & IT Books

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ISBN13: 9781466615953

EISBN13: 9781466615960

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1595-3

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As humans interact more often and more intimately with computers, and as computational systems become an ever more important element of our society, playing roles in education, the production of culture and goods, and management, it is inevitable that we should seek to interact with these systems in ways that take advantage of our powerful emotional capabilities.

Creating Synthetic Emotions through Technological and Robotic Advancements compiles progressive research in the emerging and groundbreaking fields of artificial emotions, affective computing, and sociable robotics that allow humans to begin the once impossible-seeming task of interacting with robots, systems, devices, and agents. This landmark volume brings together expert international researchers to expound upon these topics as synthetic emotions move toward becoming a daily reality.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Affective Computing
Cognitive Science
Emotional computing
Engineering approaches to emotions
Evolutionary approaches to the mind
Humanoid robotics
Language and emotions
Modeling artificial emotions
Sociable robotics
Synthetic Emotions

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Every published work contains rich and different approaches to artificial emotions. Somebody could think that this diversity could lead to a lack of agreement or that this is the example of the dominant confusion in this field. On the contrary, each contribution sheds light upon the multiple faces of the studies on synthetic emotions; all the authors, although not connected directly, contribute to the improvement of the understanding and implementation of synthetic emotions. This is a collective creation of knowledge in which all the involved researchers are designing the basis of a shared future independently.

– Jordi Vallverdú, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

For anyone who is forward-thinking, bold and just excited about opening up new frontiers, this is the book to read. Much is revealed in it that is new and unearthed through research.

– Nano Khilnani, BizIndia Book Reviews

Jordi Vallverdú, B.Phil, P. Mus, MSc, Ph.D., is Lecturer Professor at UAB (Catalonia, Spain), where he teaches Philosophy and History of Science and Computing. His research is dedicated to the epistemological and cognitive aspects of Philosophy of Computing and Science. He is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), and as researcher is member of the EuCogIII and the Convergent Science Network of Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems Net. He has written several books on computer epistemology and artificial emotions. Very recently, he won a Japanese JSPS fellowship for his studies on HRI at Nishidalab (Kyoto University).

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