Year: 2008
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Affective computing and emotional interfaces have become prominent in human-computer interaction, not least in the development of interactive virtual humans (Gratch et al. 2002). Researchers in affective computing (cf. Picard 1997) argue for increasing the expressive capabilities of artificial agents by modeling the influence of simulated emotions on bodily expressions including, e.g., facial expression, body posture and voice inflection. In doing so, different motives have to be contrasted (cf. Becker at al. 2007). On the one hand, there is the believable agent motive, which is based on the assumption that the simulation of emotions increases the believability and lifelikeness of an agent in social dialogues. On the other hand, researchers who are driven by the experimental-theoretical motive aim at a deeper understanding of human emotions and human emotional behavior, and they use simulated agents to verify their theories from a cognitive modeling perspective. There is growing consent in Cognitive Science that, in order to understand how the human mind works, we cannot ignore its affective aspects and the relationships between cognition and emotion (Hatano et al. 2000).
Author: Ipke Wachsmuth
Institution: Bielefeld University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W94797894