SAB'98 Workshop 5 Summaries

Christian Balkenius:

• low-level vs. high-level emotions: there's something missing in-between
• required: clarification of terminology ("read the psychological literature!")
• emotions to drive learning (later)
• valence/hedonic dimension as universal currency
• different presentations covered same components but connected in different ways
• yet missing: emotion learning in more complicated contexts

Thomas Wehrle:

• common testbeds?
• what are required sensors/effectors?

Michel Aubé

• relevance of multi-layer systems
• which tasks - which designs - which requirements - which architectures

Doug Riecken:

• application areas: music, creativity, personal/interface agents
• "be more scientific, stop handwaving: what are emotions?
• => creative problem solving (requires learning)
• => curiosity
• interaction/communication: emotion is another dimension
• the role of emotion in sensing vs. perceiving (added by p.petta)