Sun 12 May 2002 13:39
palette

green hat alternatives to smokestacks belching thick, black, smoke from almost every apartament in NYC which wafts with the breeze into the windows of their neighbors.

search for thelma as example of holographic, projected from credit card teacing agent.

Sara kicks some tail.

sara, you don't have to go. Is that what she's attempting to decide?

If you're happy here, why leave?

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/sociable/emotions.html
Several theorists argue that emotion has evolved as a relevance detection and response preparation system. They posit an appraisal system that assesses the perceived antecedent conditions with respect to the organism's well being, its plans, and its goals. For instance, Scherer has studied this assessment process in humans and suggests that people affectively appraise events with respect to novelty, intrinsic pleasantness, goal/need significance, coping, and norm/self compatibility.

The expressive characteristics of emotion in voice, face, gesture, and posture serve an important function in communicating emotional state to others. Darwin stressed the major significance of emotional expression as signals of behavioral intention and their role in social interaction. By allowing others to know how we feel, we can influence their behavior.

The signaling of emotion communicates the creature's evaluative reaction to a stimulus event (or act) and thus narrows the possible range of behavioral intentions that are likely to be inferred by observers. This information can be used by the observers to better shape their own behavior in response.


Models of Emotions in Kismet

It is designed to be a flexible system that mediates between both environmental and internal stimulation to elicit an adaptive behavioral response that serves either social or self-maintenance functions. Kismet's "emotions" are triggered by various events which are evaluated as being of significance to the ``well being'' of the robot. Once triggered, each "emotion" serves a particular set of functions to establish a desired relation between the robot to its environment.

The schematic above presents an overview of the emotion system. We have intentionally omitted many details and refer the interested reader to chapter 8 of the thesis for a more extensive description.

this can't remain a pastime of the elite (?)

prototype: reward
function of the associated behavior: reinforce beneficial behavior
Emotion associated: joy
Activation conditions for kismet: success in achieving goal of active behavior.


The table above summarizes, under what conditions certain emotive responses arise, and what function they serve Kismet. This table is derived from the evolutionary, cross-species, and social functions hypothesized by Plutchik (1991), Darwin (1872), and Izard (1977). The table includes the six primary emotions proposed by Ekman (1992) along with three arousal states (``boredom'', ``interest'', and ``calm''). By adapting these ideas to Kismet, the robot's emotional responses mirror those of biological systems and consequently seem plausible to a human observer. This is very important for social interaction with people.


am I most interested in affective computing or in studying the emotions and meaning people feel with respect to their interaction with software/hardware?

The line shall blur. The term artificial intelligence is not appropriate?
condensed intelligence? Human intelligence is not artificial intelligence. Products of human intelligence are __ ?

How software/computers are an extension of the individual, part of the individual. In spite of what the zen/na say. What the trans humanists say. Imagine hearing you could turn on / off!!!

I need to define my research question in this area. Mystical expereinces while interacting with computers/tech. One on the AI list asked that question--AI, appreciative inquiry in this case.


In this area, what am most interested in, as in all areas, is the quality of my experience.

Kismet's emotional model.

I believe I would like my role to be that of a programmer?
perhaps that of a teaching agent contstructor?

maybe...

"the construction of teaching agents" ?

I've been saying it is my vision of how teaching will be.
Someone wants to learn about AI or Ai and they go to the premier teaching agent for that area.

The teaching agent presents the information in that discipline in the way most useful and engaging to the viewer, adjusting level, speed, etc. of communication the way a real teacher would with a real student. The agent is able to embody a personality? the way a teacher has a personality? The agent can present information multimodally, as a real teacher can?

is in effect a synthesis of brain/body downloads of knowledgeable individuals?


I wish to make something. Do not wish to forever be working on others' projects.

I am less interested in the emotional experience of the computer/software entity than I am in my experience in interacting with the entity.

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I'm now very tired.

talk to me computer. wake me up. excite me.

there are rectangular nails between the slats of this wood floor

a long black hair has threaded itself (once) through a t-shirt I just washed.

failure will take me elsewhere.

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2002-05-12-2109
I am sad!
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