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Emotions are emergent processes: they require a dynamic computational architecture.

Klaus R Scherer1

  • 1Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. klaus.scherer@unige.ch

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
|November 4, 2009
PubMed
Summary

This study explores creating virtual agents that exhibit human-like emotions. It highlights the component process model of emotion as a blueprint for developing these emotionally intelligent artificial agents.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence

Background:

  • Emotion serves as a crucial psychobiological adaptation mechanism for flexible environmental interaction.
  • Developing virtual agents capable of human-like emotional expression and response is a key challenge in AI.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To survey emotion theories suitable for agent modeling.
  • To describe the component process model of emotion as a blueprint for virtual agent design.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical review of emotion theories for agent modeling.
  • Description of the component process model, focusing on appraisal and response patterning.

Main Results:

  • Certain emotion theories provide effective blueprints for agent models.
  • The component process model offers a framework for predicting emotional responses in agents.

Conclusions:

  • The component process model is well-suited for computational modeling of emotion.
  • Nonlinear dynamic systems approaches are recommended for emergent computational modeling of emotion.